Day: 1 November 2015

More than a week after he provoked controversy by saying a Palestinian cleric inspired Hitler to carry out the Holocaust, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now says he meant no such thing. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday backtracked from a previous assertion he had made that a leading Palestinian cleric gave Adolf Hitler the idea to murder European jews in the Holocaust — a suggestion that had prompted widespread criticism. Netanyahu had said earlier this month that he had not intended to absolve the Nazi leader of any…

Contract Workers Are Suing Amazon Amazon doesn’t want to be known as a bad employer. But with factory workers striking, corporate employees allegedly crying at their desks, and now, contract employees suing, that’s an increasingly hard case to make. To get packages on your doorstep in less than two hours and make almost any item you can think of available for purchase online, Amazon relies on a massive, diffuse labor network. Some of these workers are contracted by other companies; some of them contract with Amazon; still others are employees. Some…