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ZARA presents: A striped pyjama with a yellow star for your child

Following outcry, Zara parent company removes product worldwide, while Zara Israel apologizes and says the shirts will be ‘exterminated.’ It’s a SHERIFF shirt for your three-year-old. Obviously. What else could it be? I mean, here, take a better look: It even says Sheriff in (transparent, cutout) letters across the star. Why, what else does…

By Dimi Reider August 27, 2014

Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each wears a striped hat and uniform bearing colored, triangular badges and identification numbers. *''Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany, 1938-1941. [http://www.ushmm.org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

Stand With Us poster sends truly universal message – accidentally

Controversial poster juxtaposes Holocaust survivors with IDF soldiers. The only thing is, the Nazis’ victims in the picture are probably not Jewish. Ami Kaufman reported here on a tasteless Stand With Us poster, politicizing the memory of the Holocaust in order to support Israeli policy and the IDF. Here is the poster, and I urge…

By Noam Sheizaf March 30, 2013