EBay has temporarily renamed the yellow stars it uses to evaluate sellers on its French site after a complaint that the symbol had anti-Semitic connotations.The move came after French eBay user Dominique Bellamy wrote to the company to point out that during World War II the Nazis made Jews wear a yellow star on their clothes.
His wife said her husband "refused to be be given a yellow star, even a virtual one.
"It brought back bad memories of the occupation" of France by Germany during World War II, she said.
Friday, February 20, 2009
eBay renames yellow star amid anti-Semitic accusation.
But what if I'm an eBay white powerseller? From the Chicago Sun-Times:
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