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The Sears department store chain took down a number of shirts containing pro-Palestinian messages from its web site on 6 June 2017. The shirts, some of which featured the phrase: Free Palestine: End Israeli Occupation, appeared in the Sears & marketplace section of the company's web site, where you can buy products from a variety of retailers: Sears did not directly sell the shirts; rather, a third-party retailer, Spreadshirt, sold the shirts through the Sears web site. Spreadshirt allows users to make and sell their own shirt designs. The Palestine shirts prompted the spread of the hashtag #BoycottSears online. The pro-Israel Jewish advocacy group B’nai B’rith International said in a statement on 6 June that they had contacted Sears CEO Edward S. Lampert to condemn the shirts' availability. The group's president Gary P. Saltzman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin said in their letter to Lampert: When asked about the shirts, the company told The Jerusalem Post they would remove them within 24 hours. A spokesperson said: A Sears spokesperson also sent us a separate statement noting their removal and third-party origin and adding: As of press time, a search for Palestine on the Sears web site does not produce listings for the shirts. While Amazon and eBay have third-party Palestine shirts for sale resembling the ones Sears removed, the only Palestinian-related shirts we found on Walmart's web site are cycling jerseys.
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