CEP Impact: Neo-Nazi Publisher’s Website Disabled (New York, N.Y.) — Action by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has resulted in the e-commerce platform BigCommerce canceling services to a neo-Nazi publisher that takes its name from the Ku Klux Klan. The publisher had been using BigCommerce as its name server and additional commercial services for its online store, which had various white supremacist and neo-Nazi publications for sale, including the first volume of Henry Ford’s notorious antisemitic text, The International Jew. After locating the store, CEP researchers alerted BigCommerce that the publisher was violating the company’s Incorporated Terms prohibiting online stores from selling “profane or otherwise inappropriate subject matter” and requested that it be taken down. BigCommerce disabled access to the web store the next day. |
Screenshot of The International Jew available for sale on the publisher’s online store, which previously used services provided by BigCommerce. Screenshot taken on February 14, 2023 This is not the first time the publisher has faced scrutiny for releasing antisemitic texts. In November 2022, CEP researchers located the same first volume of The International Jew being sold on the Barnes & Noble website. After being alerted by CEP, Barnes & Noble ceased sales of the neo-Nazi press’ version of the book within one week. CEP’s subject matter expertise is at the foundation of its successful actions to impede the sale of material seeking to spread hate and benefit white supremacists and neo-Nazis. In addition to action targeting the publisher’s online sales, CEP action has led to the removal of two neo-Nazi clothing shops from the print-on-demand platform Spring—one of which was raising money for an Austrian neo-Nazi rapper serving a prison sentence for inciting violence and glorifying Nazis—and the deletion of channels endorsing neo-Nazi accelerationism and acts of terrorism that had been located by CEP on TamTam, a Russia-based messenger platform. CEP depends on the generosity of its supporters. If you value what we do, please consider making a donation. |
