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.”

MARKETING PALI TERROR SYMBOLS TO TEENS

Marketing Terror Symbols to Teens (LGF)
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."

What's going on here? It's happened too often to be sheer coincidence.

TERROR FASHION UPDATE

Delias.com 'Peace Scarf' Becomes 'Euro Scarf' (LGF)

Delias.com's online clothing store for teenage girls has responded to complaints about the Palestinian terrorist symbol, the kaffiyeh, appearing in their catalog as a "Peace Scarf." Several LGF readers forwarded this form mail from them:

Dear dELiA*s Customer,

Thank you for your e-mail and concern regarding the scarf featured. We apologize that this item has offended anyone; this was not our intention. Please be assured that our company did not intend to imply any support for terrorism.

The name given to this item was originally suggested by our vendor and will be changed online immediately and in future catalogs. We continue to carefully reviewing each concern we receive.

Thank you,
dELiA*s Customer Service

They're still going to sell it; they're just changing the name. [ED. I DON'T SEE HOW CHANGING THE NAME MAKES THIS ANY LESS OFFENSIVE. IT JUST MAKES IT SILLIER, OR SADDER, DEPENDING UPON HOW PREVALENT YOU THINK THESE TERROR SHMATA'S ARE IN EUROPE.]

To: Euro Scarf.

MORE TERRORISM FASHION

Marketing Terrorism As 'Peace' (LGF)
It’s becoming a disturbing trend.

Again we find a clothing store for young people (in this case, Delias.com, for teenage girls) marketing the Palestinian kaffiyeh, symbol of the intifada and decades of violence and terrorism.

Urban Outfitters called their kaffiyeh an “anti-war scarf.” Delias.com gives it the Orwellian name: “Peace Scarf.”

KIRSTEN DUNST AND TEEN VOGUE PROMOTE PALI TERROR-WEAR

Teen Vogue: 'A Breezy Global-Chic Scarf' (LGF)
With the help of useful Hollywood idiot Kirsten Dunst, Teen Vogue magazine markets the kaffiyeh, symbol of Palestinian terrorism and intifada, as ‘A Breezy Global-Chic Scarf’.

FASHION PHOTO OF MASS GRAVE SHOCKS HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Fashion photo with 'mass grave' shocks Holocaust survivors (Haaretz)
A photograph of a model standing by what appeared to be an open mass grave raised a public outcry Thursday after a Channel 10 report on it. The photograph of Slovak model Zuzana Gregorova was taken by the creative team preparing Dan Cassidi's summer collection campaign.

The publicist who initiated the photograph, Meir Kadosh, said he wanted to warn of the next holocaust, which could occur if Iran drops a nuclear bomb on Israel, and to protest Holocaust denial. At the same time, he denied using Holocaust motifs and said the huge hole in the ground stood for what could be the mass grave of Tel Aviv's complacent residents.

Kadosh said he got the idea for the story while filming Dan Cassidi's summer fashion campaign, when the 17-year-old model told him she had never heard of the Holocaust.

He said he decided to prepare an article for a local Tel Aviv magazine. The Dan Cassidi chain agreed as long as the company's name appeared in the story, but Kadosh said there was no intention to use the photographs in the advertising campaign.

Holocaust survivors' organizations called on Dan Cassidi and the advertising company Thursday to cancel what they called the "disgraceful advertisement."

"We're shocked by a campaign that uses Holocaust motifs for sales promotion," said Noah Flug, chairman of the Center of Survivor Organizations.

THIS TASTELESS "ART" SEEMS TO BE THE LATEST CRAZE. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS 2/19/07 POST: AUSTRIAN DESIGNER TAKES NUDE PHOTOS AT DEATH CAMP

AUSTRIAN DESIGNER TAKES NUDE PHOTOS AT DEATH CAMP

"Extraordinary bad taste" - Nazi camp site in nude photos (Juralo)
Accusations of "extraordinary bad taste" were levelled Sunday after details emerged of an Austrian designer snapping nude photos at a former Nazi concentration camp. Gudrun Geiblinger, an up-and-coming poster designer, used the memorial site at the former Mauthausen death camp as backdrop for nude photos of herself, the news magazine Profil wrote in its latest edition.

The photos, shot in the late 1990s, show Geiblinger naked, wearing only white stockings and high heels, in sensual poses in front of a camp watchtower and hugging a sculpture depicting a dying soldier.

Profil quoted Geiblinger, among whose clients are the Austrian army, Siemens and the Austrian Federal Railways, as saying the photos were an "artistic thought experiment. "

She justified the photoshoot by saying she worked on a project at an art school, doing a poster series for Amnesty International and the photos were used for "brainstorming. " Prison walls, barbed wire and a naked woman - those images were intended to "provoke", she said

"By coincidence" she discovered Mauthausen had what she needed. "I did not want Mauthausen as such, what I needed was a prison," Geiblinger said. However, the provocative project was never realized.

Shooting the photos had been easy, she added. Naked beneath her coat, she simply shed it when necessary and had her photographer snap the pictures.