“Keffiyehs are not a hate symbol and the presence ... that punches a bigger hole in their rhetoric than seeing an anti-Zionist person in a hijab,” said Rifka Handelman, a Jewish anti-Zionist ...
Debates point to larger Jewish anxiety over navigating the uneasy post-October 7 world of symbols and slogans.
When I see a keffiyeh now, I see an anti-Semitic blood libel – whereas before I left room for doubt. Nonetheless, I decided this week to lightly test my sense that it was always bad news.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, two of them while wearing keffiyehs, in a crime their families have said was “fueled by hate.” ...
Green party MP Gabrielle de Vietri was asked to remove her keffiyeh scarf - a symbol of Palestinian nationalism The Australian state of Victoria has ruled that MPs cannot wear keffiyeh scarves - a ...