LONDON — The Zara T-shirt is called the "Sheriff," but it looks more like the top of a Nazi concentration camp uniform. And that's a problem for many people, judging from the outcry on social media.
On Wednesday, after an uproar on Twitter, where many posts accused the clothes firm of anti-Semitism — or at least a large measure of insensitivity — Zara's Spanish parent company, Inditex, said it had stopped selling the shirt and apologized.
"The mentioned T-shirt is no longer on sale in our stores," the company said in a statement. "The design of the T-shirt was only inspired by the sheriff's stars from the Classic Western films, as the claim of the T-shirt says."
But others saw otherwise. "What were they thinking?'' asked the Israeli news site, Haaretz.
The shirt, meant for children, has a large six-pointed yellow star over dark horizontal stripes. It was strikingly similar to the appearance of uniforms that Jews were made to wear in concentration camps, which had vertical stripes.
It was not immediately clear how widely available the shirt was. It could be viewed on a Swedish version of the Zara website Wednesday morning, and Haaretz reported that shirts were available on the company's Israeli website as well.
On its Twitter feed, the company said, in a variety of languages, "we honestly apologize."
The controversy comes as anti-Semitism has been re-emerging across Europe in often violent protests over the latest conflict between Israel and Gaza. Even before the conflict, in May, four people were shot and killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
One person wrote on Twitter of the Zara shirt: "Complete fashion fail."
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