{"id":1404,"date":"2003-09-10T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/10\/who-knew-barbie-was-jewish\/"},"modified":"2003-09-10T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T23:00:23","slug":"who-knew-barbie-was-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/10\/who-knew-barbie-was-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew Barbie was Jewish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1042'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/abarb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"377\">\n<p align=\"left\">DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8211; Saudi Arabia&#8217;s<br \/>\n        religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining<br \/>\n        that the revealing clothes of the &quot;Jewish&quot; toy already banned<br \/>\n        in the kingdom are offensive to Islam.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&quot;Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes<br \/>\n        and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence<br \/>\n        to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful,&quot; said<br \/>\n      the message.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;u=\/ap\/20030910\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/saudi_barbie\">from<br \/>\n          AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8211; Saudi Arabia&#8217;s religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the &quot;Jewish&quot; toy already banned in the kingdom are offensive to Islam. &quot;Jewish Barbie dolls, with their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/10\/who-knew-barbie-was-jewish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}