Brooklyn jewelry store stops selling swastika earrings

A Brooklyn jewelry store owner agreed to stop selling swastika earrings amid criticism from Jewish leaders.

Young Sook Kim, the owner of Bejeweled in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, had initially defended the earrings claiming that the swastikas represented eternity in Tibetan culture.

“It’s not a Nazi symbol,” Kim told FoxNews.com. “I don’t know what’s the problem. My earrings are coming from India as a Buddhist symbol.”

Ken Stern, director of the American Jewish Committee’s division on anti-Semitism and extremism, disagreed, saying, “It’s a symbol associated with the death of 6 million people. If I were running the shop, I would choose not to sell them.”

Kim agreed Jan. 11 to stop selling the product after meeting with a New York City councilman. — jta