A “Yellow” Star of David

The Kaufhaus des Westens 1

As the genocide in Mali progressed on Friday, an insidious collusion was initiated in the "Fatherland." The Kaufhaus des Westens, the European Union's largest department store on Friday, began pulling Israeli products from its shelves as a consequence of the EU mandated boycott of Israeli products from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.




The Jerusalem Post reported Netanyahu's trepidation: "what began with the labeling of products has evolved into a full-blown boycott of those products."

On April 1, 1933, Germany’s newly elected chancellor initiated the "1000 year millennium of the Third Reich" with a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses including , Herman Tietz's Berlin department store now known as the Kaufhaus des Westens which was seized by the Nazis.

"The Star of David was scrawled in yellow and black across doors and windows: our studio, like the other Jewish businesses in Karlsruhe, was plastered with signs during the anti-Jewish boycott: ‘Don't buy from Jews’” (Johanna Hirsch, child Holocaust survivor, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.).


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