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The Anti-Defamation League has condemned a product sold in Urban Outfitters stores that it says resembles uniforms prisoners were forced to wear during the Holocaust.

The Anti-Defamation League says a tapestry embellished with a pink triangle, sold in Urban Outfitters stores, looks like uniforms that prisoners were forced to wear during the Holocaust. The group has asked the retailer to pull the product. (Credit: Anti-Defamation League via CNN Wire)
The Anti-Defamation League says a tapestry embellished with a pink triangle, sold in Urban Outfitters stores, looks like uniforms that prisoners were forced to wear during the Holocaust. The group has asked the retailer to pull the product. (Credit: Anti-Defamation League via CNN Wire)

The gray and white striped tapestry features pink triangles.

During the Holocaust, gay people were made to wear a pink triangle for identification purposes.

A letter from the ADL to Urban Outfitters President and CEO Richard A. Hayne objected to the “insensitive design and the company’s periodic use of products within the realm of Holocaust imagery.”

A request for comment from Urban Outfitters was not immediately answered Tuesday.

“Whether intentional or not, this gray and white striped pattern and pink triangle combination is deeply offensive and should not be mainstreamed into popular culture,” said ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman in the letter.

Urban Outfitters came under fire in September 2014, after selling a "vintage" Kent State University sweatshirt that had what appeared to be blood stains. (Credit: WPTV)
Urban Outfitters came under fire in September 2014, after selling a “vintage” Kent State University sweatshirt that had what appeared to be blood stains. (Credit: WPTV)

The ADL took the retailer to task in 2012 for selling a T-shirt with a star on its pocket, claiming the design looked like the Star of David symbol that Jewish people were made to wear during the Holocaust. The product “represents a new low,” the ADL said at the time.

Urban Outfitters has been criticized and even sued for selling other products, including designs labeled “Navajo.”

The retailer stopped selling a “vintage” Kent State sweatshirt that had what appeared to be simulated blood splatter on it last year after objections flooded in.

Kent State was the site of a 1970 shooting that left four students dead and nine wounded during a Vietnam War protest. Urban Outfitters issued an apology via Twitter and said the red stains were not meant to resemble blood.