Amazon removes keyring featuring yellow ‘Jude’ star from listings

Amazon has removed a keyring featuring the yellow star that was forced upon Jews during the Holocaust from its listings.

The move comes after it was notified of the keyring by the Jewish Telegraph.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “This bizarre keyring is, at best, in extremely poor taste. At worst, it is a deliberate mockery of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust. It has no place among Amazon’s wares. Amazon was right to remove this item and must ensure that similar products do not appear in its place.”

This is not the first example of Amazon selling questionable items relating to the Jewish community.

Earlier this year, we wrote to Amazon after it was reported that the online marketplace has cut a book deal with Mark Collett, the leader of far-right group Patriotic Alternative. Patriotic Alternative is known for its efforts to recruit youth to its white nationalist ideology. Previously, the far-right group published an online “alternative” home school curriculum condemned as “poison” and “hateful” and attempted to recruit children as young as twelve through livestreaming events on YouTube, according to The Times. 

Last year, Amazon was found to be selling “Palestine Intifada Clothing” that displays antisemitic slogans and inflammatory images.

The online behemoth suggests that items in the range make for a “great gift for family and friends,” including a sweatshirt bearing a machine gun and hoodies with the Star of David crossed out, and clothing emblazoned with the phrase: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

The chant of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” only makes sense as a call for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state — and its replacement with a State of Palestine — and is thus an attempt to deny Jews, uniquely, the right to self-determination, which is a breach of the International Definition of Antisemitism.