She complained to the store manager, who didn't do anything.
The H&M website for the United Kingdom did not have this shirt listed for sale.
Sometimes the hexagram is used with a skull for showing occult-type symbols. I found (with some difficulty) this shirt for sale:
And I also found a skull inside a hexagram from inside a cemetery in Ireland:
But more often you will see this motif nowadays as an antisemitic theme:
It is fair to say that the image is highly offensive, and it seems disingenuous to think that any major Western clothing store would be blind to that fact.
Perhaps someone can visit an H&M (especially in the UK) and ask a salesperson to look up on the computer the product information visible on the tag shown above. The description they give this shirt internally may shed light on whether this shirt was meant to be evocative of the Star of David or not.
(h/t O)
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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 3/23/2014 09:00:00 PM
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