This is What Censorship Looks Like
Amazon removed the paperback edition of French writer Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel "The Camp of the Saints" from its U.S. listings Friday, citing a violation of its offensive content policy.
Vauban Books, the publisher of the 2025 English edition, made the announcement Monday after the dystopian novel was flagged for "offensive content."...
The novel is dystopian fiction that examines what happens when mass immigration meets a society that has lost its self-preservation instincts...
Raspail’s book has become a cult classic, especially among the right, who view it as a parallel to our current societal changes brought about by mass immigration to the U.S...
Raspail sees the host society as the villain because of its impotent surrender. He is warning us that a society that treats its own survival as immoral will not survive...
Retired U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez criticized Amazon for removing the novel while continuing to sell books written by or about communist leaders, and demanded that the company reverse its decision.
"Crazy, foolish action by [Amazon] that must be reversed. Meanwhile you can still purchase the works of murdering communists Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Castro, Enver Hoxha and Kim Il Sung. I find that content deeply 'offensive.' So they removed a fifty-year old novel but not them," he said...
Those leaders oversaw systems that produced roughly 100 million deaths through famine, purges, labor camps, and executions...
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Amazon Didn’t Ban The Camp Of The Saints Because It’s 'Offensive' But Because It Resonates, by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, 21 April 2026:
Jean Raspail's 'The Camp of the Saints' isn't a racist screed, it's a story about how civilizations die...
The novel isn’t actually about race at all, but about how civilizations die...
For years now, the book has become something of a touchstone on the right for how jaw-droppingly prescient it is...
is the West willing to defend itself? His answer then was emphatically no, and in the five decades since, he has been proven right. One need only look out at the Third World slums that now occupy nearly every major European and American city, together with the suicidal mass immigration policies of every left-wing western government...
... every honest person who reads it knows that what he says about how civilizations die is undeniably true. And once you compare the world of his novel to the real world of today, it becomes equally obvious that our own civilization is dying, and that we in the West are letting it die.
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