mark of Cain

“It will be a mark of Cain on the forehead of Israeli society and those leading this mistaken path.”

Werksman called the jail clothes a "mark of Cain" that branded his client a criminal in photos and video from the courtroom.

Werksman called the jail clothes a “mark of Cain” that branded his client a criminal in photos and video from the courtroom.

As the biblical story goes, the curse or mark of Cain for killing his brother was a darkening of his descendants' skin.

Other commentators liken the prison label to “the mark of Cain” and characterize the perpetual nature of the sanction as “internal exile.”