UPDATE: THE "PEACE" SCARF

This past weekend, the 9/11 conspiratists held a concert/event/march/rally in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Needless to say, Kaffiyehs were in fashion among the young and ignorant/hateful. Zombie was there and has pictures (and here).

SEE ALSO: The "Peace" Scarf (Red Planet)


From Little Green Footballs :

Urban Outfitters called their version an “anti-war scarf.” UK clothing store ARK was a little more honest; they called it an “Arafat scarf.” When Kirsten Dunst showed up with one in Teen Vogue magazine, they called it a “breezy global-chic scarf.”

Delias.com called it a “peace scarf,” but when people protested they changed the name to “Euro scarf.” Now the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and murder, the
kaffiyeh, is being marketed at yet another store for young people, Alloy, this time as a “Riviera scarf.”

From Wikipedia, the symbolism of the keffiyeh:

In the 1930s, the keffiyeh became a symbol of Palestinian nationalism as a result of its association with rural areas (as opposed to the city-dweller’s fez).

The keffiyeh would later become a trademark symbol of Yasser Arafat, who was rarely seen without his peculiarly arranged black-and-white scarf…

Another Palestinian figure associated with the keffiyeh is Leila Khaled, a female member of the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Several photographs of Khaled circulated in the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the Dawson’s Field hijackings. These often included Khaled wearing a keffiyeh in the style of a Muslim woman’s hijab, wrapped around the head and shoulders. This was unusual, as the keffiyeh is associated with Arab masculinity, and many believe this to be something of a fashion statement by Khaled, denoting her equality with men in the Palestinian armed struggle. The use of the keffiyeh as a hijab remains very uncommon, and to the extent it exists, it must be assumed to be a personal political statement.

GatewayPundit: Nazis protest in Germany… wearing keffiyehs.

Michelle Malkin: “Anti-semitism. It’s the new black.”