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September 17, 2007

Sex Pistols button gets cell phone company in hot water...

Toronto Star | Read Full Story >

As Toronto’s Jewish community celebrated the Jewish New Year, a subway ad campaign for Solo Mobile, which contained a reference to a Nazi death camp, was pulled down Thursday by horrified officials at Bell Canada.

The billboard ads, which appeared in six subways stops in Toronto and in Vancouver and on a number of buses in Vancouver, featured a young Japanese girl dressed in an urban punk style, sporting a number of buttons and accessories.

One of the buttons she was wearing read: “Belsen was a Gas” – referring to the title of a controversial song by the Sex Pistols about Bergen-Belsen, a German concentration camp where Jews were murdered in gas chambers during the World War II.



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