Journalist and author Max Blumenthal, son of Hillary Clinton pen-pal Sidney Blumenthal, is not happy with Walmart and Amazon over their decision to sell — gasp! — an Israeli solider-themed Halloween costume that he says promotes “occupation, militarism and the killing of innocent kids.”
What an awful person he is:
How @Walmart is promoting occupation and the killing of innocent children this Halloween: https://t.co/JPBdXDtNyh pic.twitter.com/WSLXjxfv60
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 26, 2015
.@amazon is also promoting occupation, militarism and the killing of innocent kids this Halloween. Comment here: https://t.co/jGr8C2eeYj
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 26, 2015
Comments left on both websites are disgusting, to say the least. On Amazon, the costume is “despicable,” “inappropriate” and “perfect if you’re about to go out to do some ethnic cleansing”:
On Walmart, one person compared it to a Hitler costume:
And replies to Blumenthal’s tweets aren’t much better:
This is shockingly distasteful! How can @Walmart be so offensive. Do they sell Nazi uniforms too? https://t.co/aL0uiAEORc
— Fathima Moosa (@ummosman) October 26, 2015
Wow, you can buy the uniform of genociders at @walmart for your kiddies. What happened to your morality America?
— Frodo Chewhan (@FrodoChewhan) October 27, 2015
Terrible and sadly not surprising… https://t.co/hUlVD1ve05
— Mona Sabella (@sabelmo) October 27, 2015
.@Walmart, I thought little of you before this, but you've reached a new low, even for you. https://t.co/T6zstsuXgd
— MyeongWol 곰 (@UghSpareMe) October 27, 2015
Boycott @Walmart @BDSmovement @BDSIndonesia @SJRTooting https://t.co/2roY4Nuvaq
— Hussain Said Mourad (@HussainMourad) October 27, 2015
Selling zionist customs means you're ok with killing children.@MaxBlumenthal @Walmart @amazon @eBay @Overstock_help https://t.co/9SAVirq6fP
— Tuff Blue (@TuffBlue) October 27, 2015
@Walmart Israel is committing genocide and Walmart pulls this insanity? https://t.co/N1zSRu8JbL https://t.co/U37H5JvA47
— IsraelisApartheid (@USAsupportsBDS) October 26, 2015
Oddly, we don’t see any comments on parents in Gaza who dress their kids up as baby terrorists. That’s OK to this crowd?
'Moments in great parenting': Hamas children honor Palestinian terrorists at rally [photos] http://t.co/dLWC5YuoFw
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 18, 2015
Editor’s note: We’ve corrected a typo in the headline.
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