Swastika T

With regard to “US T-shirt company sells colorful swastika design as “symbol of love and peace” (August 7) and “‘Peace’ shirts swapped for anti-swastika designs” (August 8), I thought that between the hysteria and fits, you and your readers would be interested in reading the very well articulated response to my complaint to Teespring, the webbased US vendor:

“Thank you for reaching out, and I apologize for any offense that may have been caused by the campaign in question.

“KA Designs [the shirt’s creator] is in no way affiliated with Teespring and does not reflect the company’s views. The moment Teespring was made aware of the design, it was removed from the site. No T-shirts were sold to consumers and Teespring did not profit from this design in any way.

“Teespring would like to apologize for this incident and is taking action to ensure this does not happen again in the future. The company uses keyword detection, image recognition and manual review across its extensive catalogue of inventory. They are continually improving the processes to ensure content of this nature doesn’t appear on the site and they are creating more sophisticated systems and layers of manual review.

“Teespring stands in solidarity with those who took offense to this design, and in a show of support, the company will be making a donation to Yad Vashem.”

WILLIAM LEVY

Rehovot