Ohio Woman Sees Holocaust Reminder in MGM Security Uniform Six-Pointed Star

[Floyd R. Turbo]

MGM Resorts International announced Wednesday afternoon that it would change its security personnel uniform after a Jewish Ohio woman complained that the insignia used resembled a Nazi symbol used during the Holocaust to identify Jews.

According to the Cleveland Jewish News (CJN), June Scharf attended a comedy show earlier this month at MGM Northfield Park, a racino near Cleveland. While there, she noticed guards wearing yellow shirts with six-pointed gold stars and an MGM logo within it. The traditional symbol of Judaism is the Star of David, which was used by the Nazis to identify Jewish individuals during World War II.

Scharf told the Cleveland publication that the image triggered thoughts of the Holocaust.

“I have family that died in the Holocaust,” Scharf said. “So, I feel very close to that experience. And I take it seriously and seeing that imagery takes me right back to that past which is painful. A star on a yellow shirt screams the Jude stars that they made Germans wear, German Jews. My grandfather was German and he left Germany, but other members of his family perished.”

https://www.casino.org/news/ohio-woman-sees-holocaust-image-in-mgm-uniform-six-pointed-star

[Blecht]

1. Include the photo

[riverwalker]

4. Yeah, that is bad.

What were they thinking?

[marble falls]

2. I'm impressed with how quickly the casino responded.

[Oneironaut]

3. I believe that is meant to be more like "Sheriff" star (or a sun?), but it's still pretty bad.

I would change it for aesthetic reasons as well. It does look like the Star of David, imo.