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The holder of a Brooklyn jewelry store criticized for selling swastika earrings will reportedly stop off selling the controversial item.
New York City Councilman Steve Levin, D-Brooklyn, visited Bejeweled in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on Wednesday and met with possessor Young Sook Kim, who agreed to remove them from the shelves, the Daily Talk reports.
A day earlier, politicians and advocates told FoxNews.com that the earrings were the latest admonition of anti-Semitism in New York and New Jersey. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer demanded that the market immediately stop selling them.
"Let me be clear -- a swastika is not a style statement," Stringer said in a statement to FoxNews.com . "It is the most horrid symbol in our culture, and an insult to any civilized person."
But the store's straw boss defended the $5.99 earrings, saying the swastika is a symbol of eternity in Tibetan Buddhism , not lately a symbol popularized by Nazi Germany .
"It's not a Nazi symbol," Kim told FoxNews.com on Wednesday. "I don't certain what's the problem. My earrings are coming from India as a Buddhist symbol.
Source: Fox News