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Urban Outfitters Glorifies Terrorism

Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:23:09 am PST

The clothing chain Urban Outfitters has been featured before at LGF, when they began selling the Palestinian kaffiyeh as a hip, stylish accessory, but this time they’ve stepped way over the line — with an openly anti-Israel T-shirt that glorifies Palestinian terrorism and child abuse.

This is really sick. UrbanOutfitters.com - Fresh Jive Victimized Tee.

What is wrong with these people?

Here’s the contact page at Urban Outfitters.

UPDATE at 5/20/08 8:28:09 am:

The reader who emailed about this outrage pointed to a Facebook page where someone posted an email from the maker of the shirt:

From: [redacted]

In regards to the Victimized T:

Expressing our view that the Palestinians are victims/have been victimized.
It is not an “anti-Israel” statement.

I appreciate your inquiry.

Thanks. Regards,
RICK

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#1 bosforus 5/20/08 8:23:51 am 4

What kids don't know will kill them.

#2 Ojoe 5/20/08 8:24:18 am 6

I want to see more Scout uniforms.

#3 Sharmuta 5/20/08 8:24:18 am 2

Fresh Jive? WTF?!

#4 LeftJustAintRight 5/20/08 8:24:25 am 0

Free speach and all ya know

#5 rawmuse 5/20/08 8:24:42 am 0

I've seen worse, but not on kids.

#6 SalsaNChips 5/20/08 8:24:47 am 0

Hoo-boy, the S is about to hit the F...

#7 chinesearithmetic 5/20/08 8:26:02 am 4

Fashion is cancer.

#8 buzzsawmonkey 5/20/08 8:27:12 am 10

I'm sure that it will give many years of Al-Dura-ble wear.

#9 Teacake! 5/20/08 8:27:16 am 5

Perhaps these people grew up on violent video games and can't distinguish between fiction and reality when it comes to moral values.

#10 alexwest 5/20/08 8:27:18 am 0

Do they do this on purpose for free advertising?

This is ludicrous.

#11 Son of the Black Dog 5/20/08 8:27:24 am 1

Living near a college campus, I've seen some pretty disgusting tee shirts, but this beats all.

#12 lobosan5 5/20/08 8:27:32 am 0
'There is nothing to gained from sacrificing your Brain!'


OR

'This is your Brain on Stupid!'


are my 2 T-Shirt answers to this crap......to be printed on the back.

#13 Let's Roll 5/20/08 8:27:43 am 4

At least they didn't show the entire outline of Israel this time. Not much solace, of course.

#14 Kragar (proud to be kafir) 5/20/08 8:28:13 am 0

What a load of utter and complete shite.

#15 daddycrack 5/20/08 8:28:40 am 8

How about we put a picture of the aftermath of the sbarro bombing on a t-shirt as a contrast. I forgot, the Israelis deserved that because they victimized the palestinians. My mistake.

#16 GGMac 5/20/08 8:28:52 am 7

The propaganda methods/inroads become more and more disgusting.

#17 taxfreekiller 5/20/08 8:29:01 am 5

U.S. unSenate glorifies illegal immigrants, attaches amnesty to Iraq funding bill.

[Link: www.numbersusa.com...]

fax, call, yell

#18 Kailen 5/20/08 8:29:25 am 0

The kaffiyeh appears to be back too.

Second one?

Just a search for "scarf" on their site brings up a few similar designs.

#19 JammieWearingFool 5/20/08 8:29:25 am 8

These should sell like hotcakes at the Democrat Convention.

#20 Ojoe 5/20/08 8:29:32 am 5
#21 jamgarr 5/20/08 8:29:36 am 4

I'm not sure I get it. Victimized by whom?

#22 Oh no...Sand People! 5/20/08 8:30:06 am 0

It's cuz of the VIDEO GAMES!

/

#23 Occasional Reader 5/20/08 8:30:11 am 13

Yeah, I'd say the Pali child soldiers depicted on the shirt have been "victimized". But not by Israel.

#24 Sharmuta 5/20/08 8:30:48 am 5

Well- if urban outfitters is soo concerned about these poor "victims", I wonder why it is these t-shirts were made in the USA. Are any of the profits going to assist these little "victims"? So not only are these t-shirts blatantly anti-Israeli, they're hypocritically pro-palestinian. The children on the shirt are being victimized by islam, hamas and now urban outfitters.

#25 FrogMarch 5/20/08 8:30:52 am 6

Leave it to hard core left-wingers to elevate and celebrate Jew-hatred, the eternal victim, and child abuse.

And I'm sure the t-shirts are made with toxic chemicals and cheap labor IN CHINA. That way the holy leftists can rat-fuck our souls and the planet.

#26 Pawn of the Oppressor 5/20/08 8:31:33 am 8

Funny how the shirt admits that the poverty-stricken "victims" somehow find the scratch to outfit their kids with jihad gear, machine guns, and explosives. Besides the fact that we're talking about a f-cking kid with a gun here, which is what the UN would call a "child soldier" (as in, that's a bad thing)?

I guess I shouldn't go looking for logic from the pro-"Palestinian" crowd. That's asking way too much.

#27 lawhawk 5/20/08 8:31:44 am 0

Jive (slang) = BS!

#28 VegasRick 5/20/08 8:31:54 am 2

re: #21 jamgarr

I'm not sure I get it. Victimized by whom?

Themselves.

#29 jaunte 5/20/08 8:32:18 am 0

What's that little circular design on the shirt above the Palestinian flag?

#30 Alouette 5/20/08 8:32:19 am 0

re: #24 Sharmuta

Well- if urban outfitters is soo concerned about these poor "victims", I wonder why it is these t-shirts were made in the USA.

Who says these T shirts are made in the USA? They are probably made in China, Namibia, Guatemala, or Sierra Leone.

#31 GGMac 5/20/08 8:32:20 am 2

I've got a new T-shirt, also...mine says:

Anti-terrorisn Task Force
Camp Whoop-Ass


:)


Hubby found it at a local flea market.

#32 bosforus 5/20/08 8:32:22 am 0

re: #21 jamgarr

I'm not sure I get it. Victimized by whom?

Hold that picture up to a liberal and I'm sure you'll get the same reaction as holding a cross to a vampire.

#33 Squirrelguy 5/20/08 8:32:48 am 0

Can't say it. Self deleted. Save Stinky from having to swing the stick.

#34 toonman 5/20/08 8:32:50 am 0

OT: The Cable Show 2008

Not that many visitors. Looks like they could of used some "booth babes". :)

#35 Oh no...Sand People! 5/20/08 8:33:07 am 0

re: #32 bosforus

Hold that picture up to a liberal and I'm sure you'll get the same reaction as holding a cross to a vampire.

Or get asked on a date...

#36 lawhawk 5/20/08 8:33:30 am 9

Oh, and they're glorifying child soldiers? Who thought that was a good idea? Anyone? Bueller? These are kids being depicted carrying real guns.

This isn't fashion - it's showcasing the ugly worldview of those who run Urban Outfitters.

#37 Squirrelguy 5/20/08 8:33:34 am 0

re: #21 jamgarr

I'm not sure I get it. Victimized by whom?

It's the damn Amish I tell 'ya.

#38 Sharmuta 5/20/08 8:33:36 am 2

re: #30 Alouette

Who says these T shirts are made in the USA? They are probably made in China, Namibia, Guatemala, or Sierra Leone.

The details on the product from the link:

Armed and dangerous. Soft cotton tee from Fresh Jive with Victimized graphic at the front. Made in the USA. Machine wash.

#39 brent 5/20/08 8:33:39 am 0

I don't get it - what's wrong with showing kids with automatic weapons, kids that are assumed to be ready to kill -

Oh, I get it. It's supporting and (?) encouraging murder? While turning a profit? In that light, it is fairly malevolent, huh?


Why do I NOT think these people will be on Ubermahn's "Worst People (besides me and GE)" list this week / ever? What a tool, now that I think about it....

#40 FrogMarch 5/20/08 8:33:44 am 8

How come anti-capitalists get to sell t-shirts for money? Shouldn't they be happily working in a state run work camp?

Hypocrites.

#41 taxfreekiller 5/20/08 8:33:52 am 4

Some inside America's fighting mens perimeter are just no good sob's and sorry to say this is only the tip of the shit-berg.

November 2008 choices will be made.

#42 Squirrelguy 5/20/08 8:34:05 am 0

re: #31 GGMac

I've got a new T-shirt, also...mine says:

Anti-terrorisn Task Force
Camp Whoop-Ass


:)


Hubby found it at a local flea market.

I want one!

#43 bosforus 5/20/08 8:34:28 am 3

Product description

Fresh Jive Victimized Tee

$9.99(Was $32.00) [tough sell]

Armed and dangerous. Soft cotton tee from Fresh Jive with Victimized graphic at the front. Made in the USA. Machine wash.
* Regular fit
* 26.5"l from shoulder to hem
* Fits true to size
* Cotton

#44 Oh no...Sand People! 5/20/08 8:34:37 am 0

Urban Outfitters is now selling AK's as fashion 'accessories'.

/

#45 LEGION 5/20/08 8:34:38 am 0

Boycott, ostracize, condemn, and then ignore them. The wicked stench that comes from them is intolerable.

#46 akak 5/20/08 8:35:40 am 0

Global battlefield......rules of engagement.

#47 GGMac 5/20/08 8:35:42 am 0

re: #26 Pawn of the Oppressor

Funny how the shirt admits that the poverty-stricken "victims" somehow find the scratch to outfit their kids with jihad gear, machine guns, and explosives. Besides the fact that we're talking about a f-cking kid with a gun here, which is what the UN would call a "child soldier" (as in, that's a bad thing)?

I guess I shouldn't go looking for logic from the pro-"Palestinian" crowd. That's asking way too much.

And so...the UN is sending a rep to the USA to investigate for human rights abuses.

Some warped logic going on there on the East River.

#48 taxfreekiller 5/20/08 8:35:58 am 0

Segmental Marketing.

#49 Eric Cartman's Conscience 5/20/08 8:36:00 am 0

Well, they do look victimized. Kids carrying guns in a culture of murdering religious nutters...are, by default being abused and victimized. That's how I choose to read the "T". Victimized by their own idiot culture.

#50 kynna 5/20/08 8:36:25 am 0

Mind blowing. The guy has a right to make the T-Shirt, and UO has the right to sell it, but do they have the slightest bit of sense in their stupid brains? How did UO become so successful being so moonbatty and idiotic?

I'm just appalled and speechless.

#51 jaunte 5/20/08 8:36:30 am 3

re: #43 bosforus

The story is in the price reduction from $32 to $9. It's an ugly design and no one wants to buy it, for non-political reasons. They can remainder them for automotive washrags.

#52 Endangered in MASS 5/20/08 8:36:38 am 0

re: #19 JammieWearingFool

I'll see your Chamberlain,Hughes and Kennedy and raise you a
Papelbon,Bucholz,and Lester.

#53 Squirrelguy 5/20/08 8:36:38 am 0

re: #39 brent

I don't get it - what's wrong with showing kids with automatic weapons, kids that are assumed to be ready to kill -

Then said kids need to be assumed ready to die.

#54 Sharmuta 5/20/08 8:36:41 am 2

Fresh Jive- the company producing this shirt also has a "hip" arafat shirt.

#55 opnion 5/20/08 8:37:10 am 1

re: #19 JammieWearingFool

These should sell like hotcakes at the Democrat Convention.


XXL for Michael Moore.

#56 thedopefishlives 5/20/08 8:37:14 am 0
Expressing our view that the Palestinians are victims/have been victimized. It is not an “anti-Israel” statement.

*head asplode* I don't GET these people sometimes. Saying the people commonly referred to as Palestinians are victims is tantamount to saying that Israel victimized them. Given that this statement is patently false, that would make this an anti-Israel statement. Why doesn't logic work on these people?!

#57 Mike DeGuzman 5/20/08 8:37:14 am 0

Guess what! I called the company and they told me that the tee was taken off and is no longer available!

#58 Kragar (proud to be kafir) 5/20/08 8:37:18 am 2

I made the mistake of googling Fresh jive. One of their other shirts is a giant picture of Arafat captioned "The good ol' days". Nothing but a bunch of crap.

#59 yochanan 5/20/08 8:37:53 am 0

message to urban out fitter GAY COCK OFF YOM in english go shit in the ocean.

#60 Ringo the Gringo 5/20/08 8:38:38 am 0

Is this shirt actually available in their stores?

If it is, I'm going to go into the Urban Outfitters near my home - which happens to be in one of the most Jewish areas in the US - and cause a real stink.

#61 pegcity 5/20/08 8:38:43 am 6

If it were the 1930's the left would be marching around in red arm bands.

They are truly the spawn of a hybrid of Nazism and Communism.

Fuck them, i hope they enjoy losing yet another election.

#62 WriterMom 5/20/08 8:38:56 am 0

Charles-these FreshJive people are LUNATICS.

Gang bang clothing, violence, yadda yadda.

They have a STORMTROOPER line of clothing. Is that effing sick or what?

#63 Son of the Black Dog 5/20/08 8:39:13 am 2

re: #2 Ojoe

I want to see more Scout uniforms.

re: #20 Ojoe

This is much better

Unfortunately, I can only give you one up ding per comment.
These comments deserve to be repeated - often!

#64 sabra412 5/20/08 8:39:14 am 0

re: #57 Mike DeGuzman

I called as well.
It is still on their website though.

#65 buzzsawmonkey 5/20/08 8:39:20 am 12

Note the combination here: "Fresh Jive" is a hip-hop term, i.e., black in origin. "Victimization" is a common theme of both domestic race-hustlers and the Perpetual International Welfare Recipients who call themselves "Palestinians." The automatic weapons recall the old Huey Newton Black Panther posters.

Recall that the PLO, which invented the "Palestinian" people, was formed in 1964, after the Civil Rights Movement had achieved its true civil rights victories, and at the start of that movement's long slide into the hands of Marxists, hustlers, Islamists and black separatists. Almost immediately from the time the PLO was formed, the people who were beginning to wrest the movement away from its church-based roots, and its identification with the Israelites and the Exodus, began to build bridges to, and connections with, the Islamo-Marxist PLO, and to identify the American black community with the "Palestinians," not with Israel.

This T-shirt shows the triumph of those efforts begun long ago to build a unified identity of resentment between these two groups, and its mainstreaming in the larger American society.

#66 brent 5/20/08 8:39:29 am 1
XXL for Michael Moore.

I'm sorry, on what planet does that tubby beotch wear double X-L?!?

I'm suddenly stuck with the image of him wearing that to bear his sexay midriff, and I feel the light fading to black before my eyes as merciful unconsciousness takes me away ..............

#67 MellyMel 5/20/08 8:40:08 am 2

Got a new t-shirt m'self. It says:

"The terrorists have won the toss...and have elected to RECEIVE!"

Of course, there is a picture of a bad ass US bomber in the middle. Picked up that diddy at the air show at Andrews AFB over the weekend.

#68 WriterMom 5/20/08 8:40:59 am 1
#69 opnion 5/20/08 8:41:24 am 0

re: #66 brent

I'm sorry, on what planet does that tubby beotch wear double X-L?!?

I'm suddenly stuck with the image of him wearing that to bear his sexay midriff, and I feel the light fading to black before my eyes as merciful unconsciousness takes me away ..............


Get that image out of your mind!

#70 mj 5/20/08 8:41:34 am 2

A few years ago Urban Outfitters sold a T-Shirt which said
"Everyone Loves A Jewish Girl" with the dollar bill symbol all over it.
Nice piece of antisemitism. They changed it after the ADL got involved and put Stars of David on it instead of the money symbol.

Face it: Urban Outfitters is a Jew-hating business.

#71 opinionated 5/20/08 8:42:55 am 2

To Urban Outfitters

If you want to know what a victim looks like, notice the hands, and the fact that the victimizer- not the victim- has a weapon.

[Link: www.jtf.org...]

#72 bosforus 5/20/08 8:42:56 am 0

re: #21 jamgarr

I'm not sure I get it. Victimized by whom?

Oops, earlier I meant to reply to #20, the picture of a boy scout in front of the American flag. Sorry for the confusion.

#73 Yankee Zionist 5/20/08 8:43:00 am 1

It's one thing to draw attention to the suffering of the Palestinian people. It's another thing altogether to glorify groups that murder civilians.

#74 pegcity 5/20/08 8:43:51 am 2

re: #70 mj

Jew Hatred is cool man.

Someone on here wrote years back that soon enough the left would try and make the swastika hip, i used to laugh at the idea, now im just waiting for American Jew Hatred apparel or whatever slacker POS company to do it.

#75 sarah 5/20/08 8:44:02 am 1

Sick. This is why I don't shop name brands.

#76 JCM 5/20/08 8:44:06 am 1

Jus' askin'

Wonder how Urban Outfitters would feel if a spoldydope went off in one of their stores?

Jus' askin'

#77 Son of the Black Dog 5/20/08 8:44:21 am 1

I wonder if wearing one to high school would violate the zero-tolerance policy?

#78 miguelj 5/20/08 8:44:37 am 5

The worst of it--the very worst!--is that these T-shirts will be bought by "liberals" (sic) in places like Vermont and Oregon who are so noble-hearted that they refuse to buy toy guns for their children!
(unlike those bitter folks in Appalachia who cling to their God and guns)

--Billy! I thought I told you to stop making those gun sounds!

----But, Mom! We're playing Freedom Fighter! And I've nearly got the Zionist racist oppressors finished off!

--Oh. OK, then.

#79 montersj 5/20/08 8:44:38 am -17

Well I don't find it offensive or sick at all. If I hadn't read all the comments here I would have thought these T-Shirts were kind of tongue-in-cheek humor.
I mean someone carrying a machine gun and all that stuff can hardly be described as a victim, and certainly not 'victimized.'
It is just yet another stupid t-shirt, just like the many that we see here in the streets of Jerusalem every day. And as a general rule, the Jews can be relied upon to carry even more rude or stupid messages than the Arabs.

#80 bosforus 5/20/08 8:45:11 am 1

re: #51 jaunte

The story is in the price reduction from $32 to $9. It's an ugly design and no one wants to buy it, for non-political reasons. They can remainder them for automotive washrags.

Or toilet paper.

#81 pegcity 5/20/08 8:46:00 am 0

re: #79 montersj

er ok,

well im pretty sure that 99.99% of people here disagree with you

#82 Son of the Black Dog 5/20/08 8:46:31 am 0

re: #55 opnion

XXL for Michael Moore.

XXL wouldn't fit around his neck, much less his waist.

#83 miguelj 5/20/08 8:46:34 am 0

PS - and dont'cha just love the Dove of PEACE over the kid's head?
What a little warrior for Peace!

#84 brent 5/20/08 8:46:58 am 0

That's something that's really horrific to me - this sick pattern of making a group a victim to turn them into thugs, into an army. It's being repeated all over - the Palestinians, the Muslims, the youth.

You're all oppressed, so here's how to inflict as much harm and hate as possible - all while looking just fabulous! My guts are just churning about this crap. Well, to be fair, I'm pretty hungry, too.. Still.

#85 buzzsawmonkey 5/20/08 8:47:22 am 0

re: #55 opnion

XXL for Michael Moore.

Say what you will about Moore, you have to admit he XXLs at what he does.

#86 WalterMitty 5/20/08 8:47:56 am 0

I guess it's a fine line separating KP and, um, fashion statements.

Technically, the piece is absolutely true; but the Pavlovian response will be false. There is no plausible deniability for the producers of this item.

I remember seeing "1984" as a youngster and thinking, "No Way".

But I was just a kid.

#87 WriterMom 5/20/08 8:48:20 am 6

re: #79 montersj

And as a general rule, the Jews can be relied upon to carry even more rude or stupid messages than the Arabs

Bullshit.

As a general rule, the Arabs tend to blow up people-generally groups of Jews, they tend not to go for t-shirts.

#88 tedzilla99 5/20/08 8:48:20 am 7

My email:

I have seen your Victimized shirt and I am appalled and disgusted. You are glorifying terrorism and child abuse. These children are taught hatred and anger towards Israel and Jews, and grow up to murder Israeli women and children as suicide bombers. They CHOOSE to be 'victims' by shooting rockets at schools and homes in Israel, completely unprovoked. Your shirt shows your company to be incredibly naive, foolish, and ignorant of world issues. I have never, and now will never show you one single dollar. I thought the kaffiyehs were bad, but this is absolutely vile. And please don't tell me that you're not anti-Israel...there is no other definition for promoting palestinian terrorism. And that is what you are doing. You should be ashamed, but if you had any shame, I wouldn't have to write this.

#89 WriterMom 5/20/08 8:49:02 am 0

PS

Sniff sniff

#90 pegcity 5/20/08 8:49:24 am 0

re: #84 brent

That's something that's really horrific to me - this sick pattern of making a group a victim to turn them into thugs, into an army. It's being repeated all over - the Palestinians, the Muslims, the youth.

You're all oppressed, so here's how to inflict as much harm and hate as possible - all while looking just fabulous! My guts are just churning about this crap. Well, to be fair, I'm pretty hungry, too.. Still.

Can you imagine that ever other group did the same thing when angered, wed see how long the muslims remained so uppity.

But normal people have lives and jobs, we can't be bothered to go burn down bookstores and internet cafes when we feel slighted.

#91 pegcity 5/20/08 8:50:00 am 0

re: #87 WriterMom

Yeah i don't think my UZI DOES IT tshirt is quite on the same level as homicide bombings

#92 The Albatross 5/20/08 8:50:53 am 3

I am a US military veteran and I am very unhappy that your product line includes not only Palestinian kaffiyehs as "fashion accessories"... but I find now that you've chosen to include a very offensive t-shirt.

I am referring to your "Fresh Jive Victimized" item.

The glorification of children who have been victims of child abuse by their parents not only by arming them, indoctrination to anti-Semitism, but also by using them as shields, propaganda, and even by blowing up their own is abhorrant and repulsive.

The world could do without being bombarded by the Palestinian adgenda every 30 seconds. I find nothing fashionable about your merchandise and hope that you will pull this item from your line. Your "fashion statements" are subversive and a piss poor way of making a quick buck.

Shame on you Urban Outfitters. I'd very much appreciate it if you'd stop influencing the young people of America - as trendy as it may be - to glorify violence.

#93 Is it me? 5/20/08 8:51:47 am 0

I've just sent them an email to complain. I was polite but firm. I told them why I didn't like it and told them I found the T shirt offensive.

Don't just vent people! email, thats why Charles put up the contact details *slaps head*. I'm not an American so I wouldn't buy from them anyway but some things are beyond the pale. This is one of them.

#94 Ringo the Gringo 5/20/08 8:53:39 am 0

re: #88 tedzilla99

My email was less polite.

#95 cjstavern 5/20/08 8:53:53 am 0

While they're at it why not make a t-shirt with Hitler, Goebbles, and Auschwitz?

#96 JCM 5/20/08 8:54:19 am 2

A victim is powerless in the given situation, is unable to have an effect on the situation.

The Palestinians are not powerless, they can have an effect on their circumstances.

They can choose to act civilized.

#97 buzzsawmonkey 5/20/08 8:54:34 am 1

re: #95 cjstavern

While they're at it why not make a t-shirt with Hitler, Goebbles, and Auschwitz?

Industrial espionage! Industrial espionage!

Who told you about next Fall's new line?

#98 TalkinKamel 5/20/08 8:54:36 am 0

re: #79 montersj

What planet do you come from?

#99 pegcity 5/20/08 8:54:54 am 0

re: #95 cjstavern

That's next, just wait.

The left will try and make Nazism cool.

#100 jamgarr 5/20/08 8:55:39 am 1

re: #79 montersj

And as a general rule, the Jews can be relied upon to carry even more rude or stupid messages than the Arabs.

Examples please

#101 buzzsawmonkey 5/20/08 8:56:15 am 0

re: #99 pegcity

That's next, just wait.

The left will try and make Nazism cool.

Wasn't th