Swastikas Found On Hanukkah Wrapping Paper

Just a few short hours ago, shopper, Cheryl Shapiro, was looking for the perfect wrapping paper.  She wanted to find some cute wrapping paper for her grandchildren to wrap their Hanukkah gifts.  She picked up a silver and blue paper and within moments, she spotted swastikas on the design. In an interview with CNN, she said, "To me, it was a big deal.  I'm Jewish, and I don't want to see swastikas on anything. And to see it on Hanukkah paper, that I'm wrapping gifts in for my grandkids... no that wasn't going to fly for me..."

At first glance, the wrapping paper seems like a bunch of rectangles all bunched together to look like an intricate design.  However, upon looking closely at the corners of the rectangles, you can very clearly see that there are indeed swastikas embedded within the design.

Hallmark Cards Inc. has removed this specific wrapping paper from its shelves to prevent any further problems. The controversy of the wrapping paper only deepens with the fact that it was in a Hanukkah display.  Hallmark spokeswoman Julie Elliot says the gift wrap wasn't intended for the Jewish Holiday, Hallmark didn't mean to offend anyone and it was an oversight that no one at Hallmark noticed the intersecting lines could be seen as a swastika.

It is horrifying to me that there could be swastikas found in wrapping paper for Hanukkah.  I think Cheryl Shapiro was right in saying that we shouldn't see swastikas on anything. The wrapping paper was distributed by Walgreens which is no longer selling it, however this oversight is something that potentially could lose a lot of business. It also puts a huge damper on the holiday spirit, bringing up a horror of the past during supposedly happy times.  It is upsetting to see something like this pop up in the news especially as we are all scrambling to get all those presents wrapped in time. This oversight is horribly shocking and hopefully will never happen again.