Holocaust Denial Merch Tests Shopify’s Free Speech Ethos (1)

Shopify Inc., Canada’s biggest tech company, is drawing criticism for hosting an online store full of antisemitic merchandise, in a test of what the e-commerce platform is willing to accept under a new lighter-touch rulebook.

The store sells apparel and accessories with designs that depict the Holocaust as “make believe,” feature antisemitic propaganda from the Second World War and parody the likeness of Anne Frank.

It’s being marketed via an anti-Jewish account on Elon Musk’s social media network X called TheOfficial1984 with more than 200,000 followers. Both the X account and store tout a Telegram account that shared ...