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‘Not the Star of David’: Urban Outfitters Removes 6-Pointed Star But Designer Denies It Was Holocaust-Related

If you earned a dollar for every controversy that clothing retailer Urban Outfitters found itself in, you’d be rich. Last week, The Blaze told you about the most recent debacle surrounding a t-shirt that oddly resembled the Stars of David that Jews were forced to wear during the Nazi era. Now, the co-founder of the clothing company that produced the shirt is speaking out.

Wood Wood Responds to Alleged Jewish Holocaust T Shirt Design | Urban Outfitters

Image Credit: UrbanOutfitters.com

In a note that was e-mailed by Brian SS Jensen, the co-founder of the Denmark-based Wood Wood company explained the situation. While he admitted that the company noticed the resemblance upon receiving a prototype of the style, he claims that the graphic isn’t the Star of David and that it was never intended to be.

Here’s the letter that was posted by The Gloss, among other outlets:

Dear friends,

as some of you are aware, several news sites have been writing about our “‘Kellog’ T-shirt, which feature an image of a six-pointed star, allegedly similar to the yellow badge jews were ordered to wear by the German nazis.

First of all the graphic is not the Star of David, and I can assure you that this is in no way a reference to judaism, nazism or the holocaust. The graphic came from working with patchwork and geometric patterns for our spring/summer collection ‘State of Mind’.

However when we received the prototype of this particular style we did recognize the resemblance, which is why we decided not to include the star patch on the final production T-shirt.

I assume the image people have reacted to come from Urban Outfitters’ web site. This must be a photograph of an early sample, which is of course an error.

Here is the actual T-shirt as it is in stores: http://woodwood.dk/store/product/category-men-tees/kellog-tee

I am sorry if anyone was offended seeing the shirt, it was of course never our intention to hurt any feelings with this.

Brian SS Jensen,

Co-Founder of W.W.”

Wood Wood Responds to Alleged Jewish Holocaust T Shirt Design | Urban Outfitters

Image Credit: Woodwood.dk

The new image of the t-shirt (above), without the controversial design, can now be found on the Urban Outfitters web site.

Of course, people will likely wonder why an image with the symbol ended up on the company’s web site in the first place, especially considering that the “Kellogg Tee” was already on sale for $100 when The Blaze first reported on it.

A case of a graphics mistake or a reversal of course once the public became outraged? You decided. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section, below.

(H/T: The Gloss)

Comments (46)

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  • Thedadde
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:03pm

    Kinda looked more Star Trek to me. But, I wasn‘t around when the trains were actually ’made’ to run on time. So they say, about Hitler,… for those of you in Rio Linda.[codeword]

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  • Thedadde
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:00pm

    NO one get to use star. Who, the *****,,,, say you? just like to know who I’m bowing to… that’s all,… “what’s that, oh cool, so it’s free? cool, man, a freeeeeeee rail pass… is that a skull up in the corner?

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  • Halvis
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:59pm

    The only thing about this that is REALLY Stupid, is that apparently, people are willing to spend 70 EURos (93 USD) for a 8 dollar tshirt.

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  • Constantine Ivanov
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:10pm

    Let’s remove from use all signs and words that somebody can associate with something.
    Then not only a draft that slightly reminds the David’s Star but in fact is not, will also be automatically removed, as everything else.
    Madness gave metastases and is growing like a cancer in this country.

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    • saraand
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:38pm

      There is a difference between the Star of David and the “patch”.
      I am proud to wear a necklace with a Star of David, but never put my ancestors wore patches before they were executed.

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    • Constantine Ivanov
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:28pm

      @SARAAND:
      Hopefully, you and I are saying the same.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:05pm

    A good way to stop commerce, by going crazy thinkin something is something else. Who cares, anyway. It is getting a bit much with all the distractions. The President is the one who should be looked into, not all the shirts, etc. He and Holder are the ones who need arresting.

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  • Larry E
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:02pm

    Wish there was an Urban Outfitters store nearby I’ve got a couple of caps and some tee-shirts that I’m sure would offend their delicate sensibilities. Offending delicate sensibilities is one of my favorite pastimes too.

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  • NewYorkRobert
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 3:02pm

    Where can I buy one of the shirts with the star?

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  • Windsong
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 2:23pm

    What a great business move, Urban Outfitters! Now you can apply with the government to make all the uniforms for the government ‘forces’. You can rename yourselves Progressive Outfitters or Marxist Materials or whatever, because you definitely do not represent urban America – or any patriotic Americans. Oh, and you can apply for loans at BAC. They sold their souls too.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:02pm

      Maybe some people just like the shirt. Is there anything wrong with that? Everything is not symbolic of something else.

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  • kadster01
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:57pm

    I don’t know about the Star of David and all that, but who the hell pays $100 for a T-shirt?!

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    • blackyb
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:03pm

      Depends on how much 100 dollars means to whomever and for what they wish to spend it on, wouldn’t it?

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  • RougeFastFingers
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:09pm

    Is it true preorders in the Gaza strip total millions?

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:20pm

      I will buy 50. I would be proud to wear a STAR OF DAVID and I am not even Jewish. These retail people are so pathetic. I will never purchase anything from Urban Outfitters AGAIN, star or no star. It’s the PRINCIPLE.

      We need to shut down these anti-Jewish, socialist, commie, marxist retailers by NOT BUYING A THING FROM THEM. NO boycotts in groups – JUST DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM. Soon, they will get it. IT IS ‘WE THE PEOPLE’. WE ARE THE POWER – NOT THE GOVERNMENT. NOT THE RETAILER. NO ONE. JUST, WE THE PEOPLE.

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  • Alice111
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:34am

    Maybe it was not a star of David…, but they chose an interesting COLOR: saffron, the dhimmi color fir Jews, and why the star was yellow.
    (Our dhimmi color is blue.)
    Check out the Pact of Umar for more.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:22pm

      The Nazis used a 6 pointed star… for the Jews… but it was not a Star of David… rather an Identifier & Target… yet, by calling it a Star of David, people volunteered to wear it!

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:58pm

      “First of all the graphic is not the Star of David, and I can assure you that this is in no way a reference to judaism, nazism or the holocaust.”

      Riiiiight… as if six pointed stars in conjunction with the colow yellow pop up everywhere, all the time, right?

      Urban Outfitters is the same company with the lesbian kiss ad, they market the Soviet-style propaganda label “Obey” and have for years pushed well past the envelope of what has been acceptable in America since our Founding.

      I don’t support en masse boycots, but I’ll tell you this much, as for me and my family, we will not shop at Urban Outfitters and we‘ll tell everyone around us why we won’t.

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  • BenInNY
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:27am

    Maybe it’s just me, but even when going into it with the idea that it was the star of david I was about to see on a t-shirt, I didn’t: I saw 3 intersecting planes in a 3 dimesional shape. Sure, there are 6 points, but they‘re at incorrect angles from each other due to the offset planes and even if they weren’t, the shape would be rotated 90 degrees, wouldn’t it?

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  • COFemale
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:15am

    Oh my this guy could be a distant relative from my fathers side. I sure home not. He must be from the black sheep of the family.

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  • troymac20
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:10am

    I’d have told them to f-off. Don‘t like the design on the shirt then don’t buy it. Rather simple concept.

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:58am

    Another six pointed star (still offered) from the same page:

    http://woodwood.dk/store/product/category-men-tees/match-1-tee

    Are they stupid?

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    • COFemale
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:07am

      That one isn’t so offensive than the one that brought offense. It was the color scheme used. Yellow with a blue star likeness that brought the offense. The one you link too is on a White shirt and is not offensive. The Star of David is blue on white.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:16am

      Some people only find ‘offensive’ when it suits their needs: http://nigelparry.com/diary/ramallah/plates.html

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  • 2bfree
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:57am

    The graphic came from working with patchwork…and they just happened to patch together a star of David?…my, my, my, how ingenious of them.

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  • drphil69
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:21am

    “In a note that was e-mailed by Brian SS Jensen, the co-founder of the Denmark-based Wood Wood company explained the situation.”

    Hold on – Brian_ SS _ Jensen…. SS? Promoting tees that remarkably resemble clothing Jews were forced to wear as they were being murdered in mass?

    I guess there is no doubt – if you wear their clothes, you are supporting a Jew-hating Hitler-loving company. May you all burn in hell.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:31am

      Yeah the “SS” was VERY odd!!! Is he the “spokesman” because of tounge in cheek actions???

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:46am

      Just one more “poor me I’m a Jewish victim” story, that is only a story because it fits the Holocaust Industry’s agenda of perpetual victimhood. This keeps the eyes off of the liberal, progressive, ethnic Jews who are out there tearing down our culture; people like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and David Axelrod, Cass Sunstein, Andy Stern, Jacob Lew… Ben Bernanke.

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  • azghost
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:17am

    I wonder how many Americans know that the Star of David is on our 1 dollar bills and why it was put there?
    Notice the arrangement of the 13 stars in the right-hand circle on the back.
    You will see that they are arranged as a Star of David.
    This was ordered by George Washington who, when he asked Haym Solomon, a wealthy Philadelphia Jew, what he would like as a personal reward for his services to the Continental Army. Solomon said he wanted nothing for himself, but he would like something for his people.The Star of David was the result. Few people know it was Solomon who saved the Army through his financial contributions …then died a pauper. Haym Solomon gave $25 million to save the Continental Army, money that was sorely needed to help realize America’s –our- freedom and independence from England .

    Therein lies America ’s Judeo-Christian beginning.

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  • I_Occupy_A_Job
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:08am

    Anyone else notice the irony of his name having “SS” in it?

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:59am

    The Star of David is: Two Pyramids… one upright; one inverse… super imposed upon each other! It is not just any 6 point Star!

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:28am

      Sounds like a ‘conspiracy theory’ da me — ;-) but you are correct — The Hyksos were ‘shepherd kinkgs’ who ruled Egypt for about 100 years, then were ‘cast out to “Israel” ‘ (which formed the 10 tribes) – Re-infiltrated Egypt under ‘Abraham’ (believe the pharoah was Amenemhep I but don’t have my egyptian parallels open) – The ‘hebrew’ names were changed to Egyptian names as the ‘Hyksos Jews’ reclaimed the throne. The biblical names and the Egyptian names offer STRIKING resemblance in both time and RECORDED EGYPTIAN HISTORY – dates are just a LITTLE bit ‘off,’ but then we have to remember there were some Romans attempting to usurp them also ;-) — Me thinks the ‘star of david’ pyramids being inverse are NO ACCIDENT. — same with many other ‘masonic symbols’ — its all arguable, I know — sounds better than the current ‘debates’ on non-issues.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:09am

      @TAX…
      You are a True Scholar!

      When Ah-Mes-S overthrew the Hyksos… Some escaped and most were Captured. Moses, or Mes-S, was obviously a Hyksos in the House of Pharaoh… and he had to have Translators in the Exodus… plus the 10 Commandments can be found in the 42 Egyptian Commandments.

      Joshua of the Tribe of Ephraim, took the Title of Israel, as the Heir to Joseph… creating a Royal Lineage, being the Military Elite… and actually led the Exodus! Where even later in history, the House of Joseph has power and gives them the First King of the Divided Kingdom!

      Hebrew (E-b-u; Servant) roots are in Ancient Egypt… where Duality was an aspect of Everything: Heaven & Earth; Left & Right Bank; Body & Soul, and even writing: Right to Left, God speak; Left to Right, Man speak. Hence, Duality of the Pyramid: Visible & Invisible; Light & Dark; Seen & Hidden… where Temples in Egypt were designed as Horizontal Pyramids.,, and Soul went through the Vertical Pyramid for access to the UnderWorld.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:37am

      @TAX…
      Joseph taken to Egypt 1897 bc; Jacob enters Egypt 1887 bc; Hyksos Rule 1730-1580 bc; Hebrew Captivity 1580-1499 bc; Hatshepsut (Queen) is Pharaoh (whom else would release the slaves?)!

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:44am

      I’m impressed.
      “Ages in Chaos” is a decent read. But you guys probably already knew that.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:02pm

      @RAY…
      He is a good one, for dating: In the 2nd Year of the Exodus… GOD gives them 40 years… so the period is 42 years… and only 2 people survived from the original people to enter the Promised Land… so 42 is the Biblical Number of Death!

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  • sndrman
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:53am

    these guys have been in the news quite a bit huh…..coming outta the woodwork

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:04am

      It was the Star of David. I wanted to order several shirts for myself to wear at the beach. In the coming holocaust we are all Jews. Can I still order one with the Star?

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:34am

      @teamarcheson — bear in mind the 3 Abrahamic ‘religions’ (christians and muslims primarily, but BOTH against the Khazarian descended jewish ‘converts’) have been playing “king of the mountain” for the past 2,000 years – Still puzzling how it is that the ‘dome of the rock’ still ‘shares’ space with the temple mount — ;-)

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  • cmedeir
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:50am

    Firs of all, in the current climate, it is questionable in my mind whether the shirt was really just an “early sample”. That makes no sense to me. Also, are his initials really “SS”? That really is unfortunate.

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  • mzk1
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:45am

    I’ll accept that, but his name is rather unfortunate in context…..

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  • oldguy49
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:42am

    and ……the check is in the mail

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:38am

    Just put a picture of Che on it and you’ll be fine guys.

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    • ginger100
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:51am

      Che on one side and Hitler on the other, that would really frak them up.

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