{"id":2098319,"date":"2023-11-14T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kmart-pulls-christmas-bag-from-shelves-after-jewish-activists-spot-hamas-problem\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:30:14","slug":"kmart-pulls-christmas-bag-from-shelves-after-jewish-activists-spot-hamas-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kmart-pulls-christmas-bag-from-shelves-after-jewish-activists-spot-hamas-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart Pulls Christmas Bag from Shelves After Jewish Activists Spot Hamas Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkmart-pulls-christmas-bag-from-shelves-after-jewish-activists-spot-hamas-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2098319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Most of\u200c the time, the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-mugshot-backfires-massively-on-the-left\/\" title=\"Trump's mugshot causes major backlash from the left.\">social media\u200b feeds<\/a> of the Australia Jewish\u200b Association reflect \u200cthe hatred and anti-Semitism\u2063 with which the Jewish\u2064 people contend.<\/h2>\n<p>Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AustralianJewishAssociation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> account is filled with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-one-look-record-reveals-true-epicenter-anti-semitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> attacks<\/a> on synagogues, slurs \u2064against\u200c individual Jews,\u200b and calls for self-defense\u2063 classes \u2062for Jewish people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere has been a surge in antisemitism of all kinds across \u2064Australia. Neighborhoods with many Jews have \u2063not been spared,\u201d\u2064 the association wrote in a\u200d Thursday post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Into this time of tension came the\u200d ham-bag \u2064incident.<\/p>\n<p>Ham, being a traditional Christmas meal, and leftovers being a tradition\u200c of just about all family gatherings,\u200d Kmart Down Under was selling bags in which to \u2062put \u2064the leftovers. They bore the red\u200b and green colors of the season and the words \u200b\u201cMerry Ham-mas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In normal times, \u200drebuke from the pun police might suffice. But for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kjp-makes-excuse-viral-moment-appeared-downplay-anti-semitism-nobodys-buying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish people<\/a> around the world, nothing is as it \u2062was before Oct. 7, when \u200cHamas rampaged through southern Israel, leaving\u200d death \u200cin its wake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not normal \u2063times, \u200dthere are \u200dpeople that will distort things and will\u200c harass the Jewish community,\u201d Dr. \u2062David Adler of the Australian Jewish Association told\u200b the <a href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/wa\/kmart-removes-christmas-ham-bag-after-uproar-from-jewish-community--c-12485661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Australian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And so \u2063the organization \u200dcalled out\u2063 the item as just plain insensitive in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianJA\/status\/1722104369825697823?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1722104369825697823%7Ctwgr%5E0c8055c7582ebfa7a2a36a6dc1542d050c343a8a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3D78a880887ae04cad8ee514b60b53177fschema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FAustralianJA%2Fstatus%2F17221043698256978233Fs3D20image%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Fabs.twimg.com%2Ferrors%2Flogo46x38.png\">post\u200d on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cK-MART STUFF-UP! Check\u2062 out\u200d the special \u2063Christmas bag\u2062 currently available via K-Mart online. Yes, it\u2019s \u2062real!! Although this is potentially funny (the\u200d AJA committee\u2064 has tossed around some non-PC jokes)\u2062 it\u2019s really not a good \u2062look,\u201d the post\u2063 said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect some product manager may cause the company some embarassment. So we<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kmart-pulls-christmas-bag-from-shelves-after-jewish-activists-spot-hamas-problem\/\" title=\"Kmart Pulls Christmas Bag from Shelves After Jewish Activists Spot Hamas Problem\">\u2019ve politely written<\/a> to \u2063Wesfarmers corporate suggesting the product be pulled,\u201d it \u2064said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesfarmers.com.au\/our-businesses\/kmart-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wesfarmers<\/a> owns Kmart in Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">K-MART STUFF-UP!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the special Christmas\u2062 bag currently \u200davailable via K-Mart online. Yes, it\u2019s real!!<\/p>\n<p>Although this is potentially funny (the AJA committee has\u2064 tossed\u2062 around \u200csome non-PC jokes)\u2064 it\u2019s really \u2064not a good look.<\/p>\n<p>We suspect \u200dsome product manager may cause the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vGswVvvNG6\">pic.twitter.com\/vGswVvvNG6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2062Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianJA\/status\/1722104369825697823?\">November 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A follow-up post \u2064announced that the item was no longer being sold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, there are bigger issues to be addressed, dealing with \u200bthe\u2064 actual terrorism is important, but one of the other \u2064things we are dealing \u2063with is propaganda,\u201d Adler said, according to \u2064the West Australian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to give credit to Kmart management as they acted very quickly,\u201d \u200che said.<\/p>\n<p>A Wesfarmers representative said\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jewish-mom-disturbed-amazon-delivers-book-israel-covered-pro-palestinian-stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the item<\/a> \u200d was one of those things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got it wrong on this occasion, and we\u2063 apologize unreservedly,\u201d the representative said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen\u200b designing this product we clearly didn\u2019t\u2063 think\u2062 through all the\u200b implications and the product has been removed from sale,\u201d the representative said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>An Urgent Note from \u200bOur Staff:<\/h3>\n<p><em><b>The Western Journal has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-recruits-super-bowl-champ-to-be-official-spokesman-for-covid-booster\/\" title=\"Pfizer hires Super Bowl champ as COVID booster spokesperson.\">labeled \u201cdangerous\u201d simply<\/a> because we have a \u200dbiblical \u200bworldview and speak the truth about what is happening in America.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We refuse\u2063 to\u2064 let Big Tech and woke advertisers dictate the content we share with our community. We\u2062 stand \u200dfor truth. We stand\u2063 for\u200d freedom. We stand with our readers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re asking you to help us in this fight. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>We can\u2019t \u2062do this without you<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-calls-8-republicans-traitors-they-should-all-be-driven-out-of-public-life\/\" title=\"Newt Gingrich labels 8 Republicans as 'traitors', demands their removal from public life.\">donation directly\u2063 helps fund<\/a> our editorial team of writers and editors. Your support means\u2064 we can continue to expose false \u200bnarratives and defend traditional\u200d American\u2064 values.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please\u2063 stand with us \u200cby donating today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Thank you for\u200d your \u2064support!<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kmart-pulls-christmas-bag-shelves-jewish-activists-spot-hamas-problem\/\">Kmart Pulls Christmas Bag from Shelves After\u200d Jewish Activists Spot \u200bHamas Problem<\/a> \u200c appeared\u2062 first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What are the potential consequences of not enforcing stricter policies against hate \u200cspeech\u2064 and the dissemination of anti-Semitic content on social media platforms<\/h2>\n<p><span>  In Nazi symbolism\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>in Nazi symbolism]<\/a> that \u2064were being sold on their platform. \u2062The company swiftly removed the\u200b offensive products and apologized for any distress caused. This incident highlights the importance of vigilance in monitoring and addressing anti-Semitic content on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cAustralia\u2063 Jewish\u2062 Association&#8217;s proactive stance against the insensitivity displayed by Kmart is commendable. By speaking \u2063out and urging for the removal of the &#8220;Merry Ham-mas&#8221; bags, they have shown a commitment to combatting anti-Semitism in\u2062 all \u2062its forms. It \u2063is crucial for organizations and individuals to stand up against hate\u200b speech and discriminatory acts to ensure a safe and inclusive society for all.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u2062 it \u200bis deeply concerning that the social media feeds of the Australia Jewish Association often reflect the hatred and anti-Semitism with which\u200c the \u200bJewish people continue to contend. Attacks on synagogues,\u200b slurs \u200cagainst individual Jews, and calls for self-defense classes are prevalent on their Facebook account. The surge in anti-Semitism across Australia, as acknowledged by the association,\u2064 necessitates\u200c a robust response\u2064 from all stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>It is disheartening to witness the persistence of \u2064anti-Semitism in our society. The Jewish community, like any other, deserves to live without \u2063fear of discrimination or violence. Acknowledging and addressing these issues is the first step\u200c toward creating a more inclusive and harmonious society.<\/p>\n<p>It \u200bis crucial for social media platforms and internet companies to enforce stricter\u2062 policies against hate speech and the dissemination of anti-Semitic \u200ccontent.\u2064 By implementing stronger guidelines and swiftly taking down \u2064offensive material, these platforms can play a \u2064significant role in curbing anti-Semitism and promoting a more tolerant online environment.<\/p>\n<p>Education and\u2063 awareness also play a pivotal role\u200b in combating anti-Semitism. Promoting understanding, tolerance, \u200cand respect among different religious and ethnic communities will contribute to\u2062 the eradication of prejudice and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The Australia Jewish Association&#8217;s efforts in advocating for the removal of the &#8220;Merry \u2062Ham-mas&#8221; bags from Kmart demonstrate\u200b the importance of activism and speaking out against \u2064anti-Semitism. \u2064It is\u200b essential for communities to come together\u2063 and support one another in the \u2062face of discrimination \u2063and hate.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, creating a society free from\u200c anti-Semitism requires collective action. Governments, organizations, individuals, \u200dand social media platforms must work hand in hand to condemn\u200d and counteract anti-Semitic acts and ideologies. By fostering dialogue, facilitating\u200b education, and promoting tolerance, we can strive towards a future where discrimination and \u2063hatred \u200bhave no \u200cplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time, the social media feeds of the Australia Jewish Association reflect the hatred and anti-Semitism with which the Jewish people contend. 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