Holocaust memorial. Fashion shoot.
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Wow, I thought Ryanair led the pack as regards tacky, offensive low-cost airlines, but EasyJet’s “Holocaust gaffe” really takes the cake: The latest version of EasyJet’s in-flight magazine features pictures from a fashion shoot at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.
I’m not sure what’s most shocking: that the publishing company Ink thought it was okay to photograph bored-looking fashion models without permission at a Holocaust memorial, that EasyJet thought it was okay to publish those photos in its magazine, or that EasyJet would subsequently play dumb and claim that they had no idea what had been published in their own damn magazine until the New Statesman contacted them and questioned them about it.
The whole incident is a mind-boggling display of ignorance, insensitivity and, as Denis MacShane of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism said, “…the banalization of anti-Semitism and the trivialization of the genocidal massacre of Jews in the Second World War.”
Just file this one under a big old W.T.F.
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