Tesco withdraws anti-Semitic books

TESCO has pulled anti-Semitic literature from its online bookstore following complaints from an anti-facist magazine.

The far-right titles included the Hitler We Loved and Why, The International Jew and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Searchlight magazine said it was “horrified” to discover books by US far-right publisher Liberty Bell on the Tesco website.

It describes The Protocols as an anti-Semitic “propaganda weapon” usually distributed only by Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other hard right groups.

Searchlight found another 106 titles by British-based publisher Steven Books which it describes as “so extreme that even the British National Party does not sell them.”

A Tesco spokeswoman said the books had been pulled following the complaint from Searchlight.