Walmart removes at least 4 shirts glorifying slain terror chiefs Sinwar, Nasrallah
US antisemitism watchdog calls third-party items listed for sale online ‘outrageous,’ adds: ‘Are you aware you’re selling apparel celebrating terrorism and violence against Jews?’
U.S. retail giant Walmart has apparently removed at least four shirts it offered for sale online that featured pictures of slain terror chiefs Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah, after the garments were slammed as “outrageous” by an antisemitism watchdog.
One of the shirts showed former Hamas leader Sinwar’s face and his name broken into “Sin” and “war,” while another featured a doctored caricature of the terror mastermind firing a weapon while in combat gear.
Killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip in October, Sinwar led the Palestinian terror group in Gaza from 2017 until his death. He masterminded the October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre in southern Israel, in which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 251, sparking the ongoing war in Gaza.
The shirts were flagged by US-based watchdog Stop Antisemitism, which wrote in a post on X early Tuesday that “Walmart shoppers were horrified to find shirts glorifying Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar while online shopping.”
“Walmart, are you aware you’re selling apparel celebrating terrorism and violence against Jews?” the post continued, calling for the items to be removed immediately.
A third Sinwar shirt which featured a graphic of Sinwar above the word “RESIST” in the style of former US president Barack Obama’s “HOPE” campaign, also appeared to have been taken down between Tuesday and Wednesday, though the image still appears in online searches.
A shirt featuring a low-resolution picture of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel in a Beirut airstrike, had also been removed by Wednesday morning.
That shirt, sold by a Texas-based third-party vendor, was titled “Nasrallah Safe Following Israeli Airstrikes,” a decidedly false claim about the Iran-backed terror chief who was killed in an October 27 strike.
There was no immediate comment from Walmart.
Large retail platforms like Amazon and eBay have also run into trouble over the years due to questionable offerings from third-party sellers, including items that appear to be created by scraping random images from the internet or using artificial intelligence tools.
The offensive potential Christmas gifts were uncovered amid the ongoing war in Gaza and not long after a shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect last month, halting over 14 months of cross-border attacks that the Lebanon-based terror group said were in support of Palestinians. PJC
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