Posted on 05/23/2008 12:55:43 PM PDT by mojito
Popular U.S. clothing store Urban Outfitters has halted sales of a T-shirt apparently supporting Palestinian violence that has sparked outrage in the American Jewish community.
The T-shirt, created by Los Angeles-based designer "Fashion Jive," depicts a young Palestinian boy carrying an AK-47 assault rifle, over the word "Victimized." The T-shirt also shows the Palestinian flag, a map of the Palestinian territories and a small white dove. The item sold online for $25.
"If Urban Outfitters is good at something, it is getting publicity," remarked Ami Cohen, works for American Apparel in Tel Aviv. "This company has a history of coming into conflict with Jews."
Several years ago, the company played on the "Jewish American Princess" stereotype by selling T-shirts with the slogan "Everybody Loves a Jewish Girl," surrounded by dollar signs and shopping bags.
In 2007, it again came into conflict with Jewish and pro-Israel consumers for selling versions of a traditional Arab headdress, the kaffiyeh, as an "anti-war scarf."
Although the firm's CEO, Dick Heyne, argued that the company had not intended "to imply any sympathy for or support of terrorists or terrorism" by selling the kaffiyeh, some argue that selling of the "Victimized" T-shirt does just that.
"Of course this T-shirt is supporting terrorism," said Leah Weiss, a fashion designer who recently immigrated to Israel. "I've joined a Facebook group to boycott Urban Outfitters and get rid of their clothes. I will never shop there again."
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Nice...I actually bought something from them once. Never again.
so did I, back in 1987. I still had it, it was a nice blouse and I wnated to fit back into it! After hearing about this last week, I emailed Urban Outfitters and told him how I bought this shirt at their Philly store years ago and really loved it, but because my Jewish blood is so cheap to them that I was going to clean the guinea pig’s cage with it that night. And I really did. I should have sent it to their corporate office afterward instead of throwing it out.
I propose we start making t-shirts with photos of jews killed by Hamas and Hezbollah, with a nice big star of david watermark in the background and the word “victimized” underneath. Wonder what they would think of that? Or how about a photo of an israeli soldier holding an M-16 and the word “Defender” underneath. Yeah, I like that one.
I’m pretty sure an actual kaffiyeh is supposed to be checkered black and white? Either way the ditz probably has no idea what one is anyway.
To the Palestine lovers: You can criticize; but you don’t have the b@@@s to live in Palestine. Go, move there.
Who owns urban outfitters?
Or how about a t-shirt with just a great big Star of David on it?
a Philadelphia company....the stock is in the toilet and sinking like the turds that run this shi-ite company that is pro pali muzzie!!!!
That’s a nice, photo-shopped picture you have there. No fan of Rachael Ray, but that picture was probably done as a joke.
It's not Photoshopped. It's on the Dunkin' Donuts Web site right now.
Looks like a regular old scarf to me. Why are your panties in a wad about it?
It’s not the type of scarf you’re thinking it is.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192813.php
Sorry, I don’t know how to link items in this forum yet.
Cool, it links it for you! I didn’t know that.
She's Sicilian and cajun, I don't think there's any agenda going on here other than hypersensitivity on LGF's part. It's not like she had a poster of che guava on her office wall.
For an ad account this big, I doubt Ray chose her own wardrobe. Some assistant probably put the scarf on her. I’m just surprised that DD’s ad company didn’t see any issue with the choice.
Hatheos, you might be right, but it looks very similar. Urban Outfitters has been big on Palestinian “radical chic” and this looks like the latest example of that to me.
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