The Blue T-shirt has been removed from sale after it sparked outrage online.
The “not allowed” children’s shirt depicts actress Bluey wearing a Palestinian headscarf and wearing the slogan “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!”
“Freedom Fighter Bluey” T-shirts were sold by the Australian volunteer organization Free Palestine Printing, Australians report.
The organization says on its website that all profits will go “to support Palestine”.
The BBC, which owns the global commercial rights to Bluey, said the T-shirt was a “counterfeit product”.
It was taken down on Monday evening.
A prominent civil rights group fighting anti-Semitism claimed the print was “exploiting a much-loved Australian children’s icon” for a “misguided … cause”.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said the product was “weaponising” children to spread a “hateful agenda”.
“These agents of division are corrupting the hearts and minds of our children and exploiting much-loved Australian children’s icons who represent goodness, fun and innocence, for their misguided and ugly purposes,” he said.
Pro-Palestinian shirts featuring Bluey have been removed from the market.
This is not the first time Bluey has been dragged into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Last week an award-winning Aussie writer penned a powerful take on the most popular episode of children’s television program Bluey.
In a new poem shared to Instagram, titled Bluey in carnage, Islamic novelist Omar Sakr refers to ‘Cricket’, an episode in the show’s third season that centers around a family of Queensland cartoon dogs who play backyard sports.
The shirt featuring the popular Australian children’s character was allegedly “unauthorised”. ©Disney+/Courtesy Everett Collection
According to Sakr, the main theme of the episode “sports” is not the only option for some viewers.
“We watch episodes of cricket, All laconic draws and Summer games, the dedicated puppy learns To play while his father is away,” his poem reads.
“His name is Rusty, he’s an At bat star. My son rolled it, and so did I Until the end; the scene changes And there’s father far away In battle fatigues, and I learn Even in this cartoon world There’s a desert full of dogs Soldiers and guns, and somewhere Beyond the frame, Arabs are dropped.”
In the comments of the poem, others agreed, writing they “remember the episode and the feeling”.
“This. Even the small moments that our children absorb can influence what they see as ‘okay’ or ‘normal’,” commented another.
“Will there be an episode where Rusty’s dad has ptsd for what he did?”
A third said: “The ending hit like a truck.”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
