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Turban Outfitters Peddles Terrorism Chic

Michigan-based company’s cheeky T-shirts feature anti-Israel slogans

by
Liel Leibovitz
November 11, 2014
(Turban Outfitters 48)
(Turban Outfitters 48)

Are you a hipster? Mindless in your sartorial and political preferences alike? Desperate to sport some symbolic shorthand that would signal to your herd that you, like them, hold all the correct views, facts and nuance be damned? Think terrorism is vaguely cool? Now there’s a clothing line just for you.

It’s called Turban Outfitters 48, a Michigan-based company whose designs are as subtle as the bad pun in its name. Among its top designs are a T-shirt that reads “Professional Stoner,” and another whose front declares “Peace by Piece” and whose back features a map of Israel broken down jigsaw style and colored in red, green, black, and white, the colors of the Palestinian flag.

So stock up on some tees, and take comfort in knowing that ten percent of every purchase goes to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, an organization that has been financially linked to the Holy Land Foundation, shut down by the U.S. government for funneling money to terrorist groups like Hamas. It’s always nice when substance and style match up so well.

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and a host of its weekly culture podcast Unorthodox and daily Talmud podcast Take One. He is the editor of Zionism: The Tablet Guide.