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Zara has withdrawn the skirt from its website after complaints on social media. Photograph: Zara

Zara has withdrawn a skirt with a frog design from its website after social media users noted its resemblance to Pepe, a cartoon popular with the so-called alt-right.

The denim skirt, embroidered with cartoon frogs wearing sunglasses, was being sold as part of the brands festival edition. But Twitter users were quick to point out its similarities to the Pepe cartoon:

Writer Meagan Fredette spotted the skirt and told Dazed: My immediate thought was holy shit, they have no idea what they are doing here, do they?

The original link to the skirt on Zaras website now redirects to its front page.

A spokesperson for the company said the skirt has absolutely no link to Pepe or the alt-right.

The skirt is part of the limited Oil-On-Denim collection which was created through collaborations with artists and is only available in selected markets, the spokesperson said.

The designer of the skirt is Mario de Santiago, known online as Yimeisgreat. Mario explores social interactions through his work and in his own words: The idea came from a wall painting I drew with friends four years ago.

There is absolutely no link to the suggested theme.

Pepe the Frog was created by cartoonist Matt Furie, who originally envisaged him as a chill and good-natured frog. However, over the course of the American electoral campaign, Pepe transformed from an amusing star of weird memes to a white supremacist symbol denounced by the Anti-Defamation League.

Furie has since teamed up with the ADL in an attempt to reclaim Pepe. He said: Its the worst-case scenario for any artist to lose control of their work and eventually have it labelled like a swastika or a burning cross.

This is not the first time Zara has got into trouble with an ill-judged clothing design. In 2014, they pulled a childrens striped shirt with a yellow star after complaints that it looked like the clothing worn by Holocaust victims.

In 2007, an embroidered handbag was withdrawn from sale after customers noticed it was decorated with green swastikas.

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Published time: 19 Apr, 2017 16:50

Student protesters and masked antifa activists clashed with supporters of alt-right leader Richard Spencer as he gave a speech at Auburn University, which tried to keep him away but was overruled by a federal judge on free speech grounds.

Spencer, who describes himself as a white identitarian and alt-right, spoke to an audience of around 400 people at Foy Hall. Outside, three people were arrested for fighting. Video from the scene shows several bloodied people being led away by police.

Auburn students got into shouting matches with a group of Spencers supporters from the Traditionalist Worker Party a white nationalist organization wearing helmets and carrying shields. Some antifa activists who showed up to protest Spencer were ordered by police to take off their masks.

In the end, there was no large-scale melee of the kind that took place in Berkeley, California last week, when masked antifa protesters clashed with a rally organized by supporters of US President Donald Trump.

The university initially approved Spencers hall rental, but tried to cancel the event after critics warned that it would incite violence and endanger student safety, according to WSFA-TV.

The university condemned attempts by uninvited, unaffiliated, off-campus groups and individuals to provoke conflict that is racially divisive and disruptive to our campus environment, according to a statement by Provost Timothy Boosinger.

We will not allow the efforts of individuals or groups to undermine Auburns core values of inclusion and diversity and challenge the ideals personified by the Auburn Creed, he added.

Cameron Padgett, who rented the auditorium for the event, sued the university on First Amendment grounds. On Tuesday, US District Judge W. Keith Watkins agreed, granting Spencer a restraining order against the university.

Auburn is not allowed to pick and choose what views are to be represented in a facility open to the general public for holding meetings and giving and hearing speeches, Padgett said in the complaint.

In the end, Spencer spoke for about two hours, extolling the virtues of white European Americans, the alt-right and identity politics. At one point, however, even the supportive students jeered when he criticized the Southeastern Conference and college football, which is a cherished institution at Auburn and across the American South.

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The alt-right is celebrating the ruling of a judge to allow Richard Spencer the right to speak at a university and their recent clashes with antifascist protests as victories for their movement and as the deligitimization of their opponents.

We just achieved a great victory, said white nationalist Spencer in a YouTube video before his appearance, speaking about the judges ruling. It was certainly a great victory for the alt-right.

Alt-right supporters rallied around Spencer ahead of his talk, which was also livestreamed online and looked forward to the possibility of confronting antifascists, or antifa, demonstrators, as they had days ago in Berkeley.

Please come prepared take some pointers from what the boys did in Berkeley, said an alt-right vlogger known as Continental Concious. They did a fantastic job.

Antifa scum waited to jump a goy after everyone else was inside, white nationalist blogger Hunter Wallace wrote on Twitter, sharing a video of a clash at Auburn.

Goy is a perjorative for non-Jew that has a pejorative connotation. The alt-right has appropriated the word and uses it to describe themselves.

Email Sam Kestenbaum at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum

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