Store sells 'Jews Against Obama' shirt

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An Israeli immigrant says he has received death threats since he began selling "Jews Against Obama" T-shirts at his store in New York. Doron Braunshtein, who operates a boutique on the Lower East Side, told the New York Post he changed his mind about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., because of the flap about the Democratic presidential candidate's former pastor and having discovered Obama had visited Pakistan. A T-shirt in the window of his store, Apollo Braun, has on it a yellow star with the word "Jude" inside, a checked scarf or keffiyeh like that worn by Yasser Arafat, a belt of bullets and a copy of "Survival In Auschwitz" by Primo Levi. Braunshtein said he wants to remind Jews of what can happen. "You open the door for Obama, you have no idea what can come your way," he said. Most people who saw the T-shirt disapproved with Michael Idov, a magazine editor, calling it "nauseating." One woman liked it, so Braunshtein gave her one. What do you think?