Email sent today at 9:46am from PayPal's service department advising of
the freezing of the account:

Dear Andrew Winkler,

We appreciate the fact that you chose PayPal to send and receive payments or your transactions.

However, your account has been limited for violating PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding Offensive Material. Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items or in support of organizations that promote hate, violence, or racial intolerance. PayPal also prohibits a person convicted of a violent felony, or his relatives or associates, from using PayPal to benefit financially from the
convicted criminal's notoriety or crime. The complete Acceptable Use Policy addressing Offensive Material can be found at the following URL:

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/use/index_frame-outside&ed=offensive

To appeal the limitation on your account, you will need to:

1. Remove PayPal as a payment option, as well as all references to PayPal, including the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart, from your website, http://www.ziopedia.org.

2. Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.

This is not intended to be an all-inclusive review or list of your Internet sites in violation. Furthermore, the violations of the Policy described above are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that all transactions comply with the Acceptable Use Policy.

For more information about the status of your account and for instructions on how to restore full use of your account, please login to your PayPal account.

We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as possible. Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of time, it may result in permanent limitation.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. If you have any questions, please contact the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at aup@paypal.com.This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sincerely,

PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department
PayPal, an eBay Company

Email response sent back at 12:30pm in reply:

Dear Sir/Madam,

As requested, I have removed any reference to PayPal from the ziopedia.org homepage. I understand that visa and master card logos are not a 'paypal reference'. I haven’t removed the link to the PayPal payment form as yet, because I consider this matter to be a misunderstanding that can be resolved very quickly in an amicable fashion.

I am curious how the contents of the Ziopedia.org site could possibly be in violation of your acceptable use policy. ZioPedia.org is deeply opposed to hatred, violence and racial intolerance , in fact fighting against these things is all ZioPedia.org is about:

“ZioPedia and the Rebel team strongly opposes trailor-trash racism, in fact we believe that a lot of groups and organisations promoting racial hatred against Jews are seeded with Zionist agents provocateurs, frightening ordinary Jewish folks into blind support for their criminal leadership. We consider Israel to be the most racist and evil country on this planet, an illegal political entity, controlled and protected by a Mafia-like criminal network with a 19th century style colonialist and social-Darwinist agenda. We fight for Israel's replacement with a free, united, egalitarian and secular Palestine.” -- .

It's funny though, how some people can't see that, when the victims of those deplorable things are Muslims, and the perpetrators Israelis. Is PayPal in the business of deciding who is the perpetrator and who is the victim in the context of the Palestine conflict, whose hatred, violence and racial intolerance is acceptable and whose isn’t?

I am even more curious, which convicted violent felon or relative/associate of a convicted violent felon you are referring to who might benefit financially from the notoriety or crime. Firstly, the only beneficiary of the payments coming in via paypal is The Rebel Media Group and is used to pay for the running of our site.

I understand that what triggered PayPal to freeze my account is the publicity caused by an article titled "Elie Wiesel and the Big Lie" . As stated in a recent interview and in an editorial comment at the bottom of the article, I considered it to be a spoof, when making the decision to post it.

"When I first saw the article submission, I couldn’t stop laughing, because I thought it was a spoof written by some witty revisionist." --

I also made it clear in the interview, that I consider what is described in the original article, the coercion of a confession, to be a criminal act.

“Coercing someone into a confession is a crime, regardless of the motives and whether it’s done by the Bush government or a Holocaust revisionist.” --

Even if the original article wasn't a spoof or a plant, as I suspect, and the attempted coercion of a filmed confession of Elie Wiesel, that his supposedly non-fictional descriptions of his experiences in a nazi concentration camp were in fact fictional, did indeed occur, publishing that article wouldn’t be in conflict with the PayPal terms of acceptable use, as long as the alleged offender hasn’t been convicted of a violent felony. And as I said before, the alleged offender wouldn’t profit financially of that felony through donations going to the ZioPedia site.

In summary, neither ZioPedia’s anti-Zionist stance nor the whole ‘Eric Hunt’ affair is by any means in breach of your terms of acceptable use. I appeal to you to re-instate the full use of the account.

Kind regards,

Andrew Winkler
Editor/Publisher
ZioPedia – All There Is To Know About Zionism

PayPal refusal to reactivate the account on 12:52pm:

Dear Andrew Winkler,

Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern regarding the limitation on your account.

Your appeal to lift the limitation on your account has been denied. In order to comply with PayPals Acceptable Use Policy and bring your account into good standing, you will need to:

1. Remove PayPal as a payment option, as well as all references to PayPal, including the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart, from your website(s), http://www.ziopedia.org

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. If you have any questions, you can either log in to your PayPal account for more information, or contact the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at
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Sincerely,
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department

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