A Bluey t-shirt was withdrawn from sale after it sparked outrage online.
The “unauthorized” children’s T-shirt shows the cast of Bluey wearing Palestinian scarves and sports the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
The “Freedom Fighter Bluey” T-shirt was sold by the Australian volunteer organization Free Palestine Printing. The Australian reports.
The organization said on its website that all profits would go to “support Palestine.”
The BBC, which owns the global commercial rights to Bluey, said the shirt was a “counterfeit product.”
It was removed Monday afternoon.
A prominent civil rights group fighting anti-Semitism claimed the print “exploited a much-loved Australian children’s icon” for a “deformed… cause”.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said the product was “weaponizing children” to spread an “agenda of hate”.
“These division agents are corrupting the hearts and minds of our children and exploiting a much-loved Australian children’s icon that represents kindness, fun and innocence, for their twisted and ugly cause,” he said.
A pro-Palestinian t-shirt featuring Bluey was recalled.
It is not the first time that Bluey has been dragged into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Last week, an award-winning Australian writer penned a solid version of the most popular episode of children’s television show Bluey.
In a new poem shared on Instagram, titled Bluey in the genocide, Muslim novelist Omar Sakr referred to ‘Cricket’, an episode from the show’s third season that focuses on the Queensland family of cartoon dogs who practice backyard sport.
The T-shirt featuring the popular Australian children’s character was allegedly unauthorized. ©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection
According to Sakr, the episode’s central theme, “sportsmanship,” wasn’t the only thing some viewers took away.
“We see the cricket episode, all the laconic accents and summer games, a dedicated puppy learning to play while his father is away,” his poem says.
“His name is Rusty, he is a star at bat. My son enjoys it, as do I until the end; the scene changes And there is the distant father In combat uniform, and I learn Even in this cartoon world There is a desert full of dogs Soldiers and weapons, and somewhere Out of frame, Arabs being slaughtered.”
In the comments of the poem, others agreed and wrote that they “remember that episode and that feeling.”
“This. Even these little moments our kids absorb can influence what they consider ‘good’ or ‘normal,'” another commented.
“Will there be an episode where Rusty’s dad has PTSD from the things he’s done?”
A third said: “That ending hits like a truck.”
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