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Like everything that is “Palestinian,” the keffiyeh comes from somewhere else. Its name is derived from an Italian word, cuffia, or headdress. It originated among the Bedouins as a protection from the sun, and not just Palestinians, or Arabs in general, wear it; Kurds and Yazidis sometimes sport it as a non-political statement. Nevertheless, the close identification of this headdress with the Palestinian jihad against Israel has made it unmistakable: the keffiyeh is today what the broken cross of National Socialism was in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a symbol of an irrational and violent hatred of Jews, and a determination to destroy them.
On Saturday morning, yet another incident made this clear. A man went to the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the seaside French resort of La Grande-Motte, where he set two vehicles on fire. The fire spread to the doors of the synagogue and injured a police officer. A French intelligence official stated: “The suspect is Arab with a Palestinian flag tied around his waist and a handgun on his belt.”
Surveillance video, however, showed that he was also wearing a keffiyeh, and that was no surprise at all. Wearing the keffiyeh is an indication today that one stands for the principle that is so succinctly and clearly enunciated in the ubiquitous battle cry “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” As all of Israel lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, this is a call for the total destruction of the Jewish state and a new genocide of the Jews.
The association of the keffiyeh with this genocidal cause began about ninety years ago. Initially, some Jews who moved to British Mandatory Palestine donned the keffiyeh, as they saw doing so as part of trying to fit in with their neighbors. However, during the 1936-9 Arab Revolt against British rule, Arab commanders ordered Arab men to wear the keffiyeh as a symbol of their “resistance.”
In a report to the British Foreign Office, Harold MacMichael, the British Mandatory High Commissioner in Palestine, wrote: “This ‘order’ has been obeyed with surprising docility and it is not an exaggeration to say that in a month eight out of every ten tarbushes in the country had been replaced.” Keffiyeh-wearing jihadis murdered around 500 Jews, and the Jews of the region, as they were the targets of those who were wearing the keffiyeh, stopped wearing it themselves.
No one at the time of that uprising called the Arabs “Palestinians.” The Palestinian people, as a distinct ethnicity and nationality, was invented by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in 1964. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, who had served as acting chief of Cold War–era Communist Romania’s spy service, “the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat’s birth in Cairo, and replaced them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.”
Arafat and his fellow jihadis worked to popularize the propaganda fiction that the “Palestinians” were a people who were distinct from the other Arabs of the region, the keffiyeh became the national symbol of the spurious new people. Arafat cemented the link by making a black-and-white keffiyeh with a fishnet pattern his personal trademark. Wearing the keffiyeh became a symbol of one’s “solidarity” with the struggle of this new and yet supposedly indigenous people, and so it has remained to this day.
The association of the keffiyeh with the Palestinian Arab jihad has become so universally accepted that it is now commonplace to see leftists who are not “Palestinians” or Arabs wearing it to demonstrate their loyalty to the left’s cause du jour. Arabs and Kurds who wear it today will likewise be assumed, especially in the West, to be expressing their support for the jihad against Israel, even if that thought never crossed their mind.
The Palestinians as a people were invented in order to be used as a weapon against Israel. Instead of fighting to destroy the world’s only Jewish state in order to establish a twenty-third Arab state, the Palestinians were a people even smaller in numbers than the Jewish people, fighting for their indigenous homeland. Instead of being given refuge and starting new lives in the neighboring Arab lands, the Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 remain perpetual refugees. So do their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, longing for a fictional homeland that none of them have ever seen. Aside from the jihad against Israel, this new people has no existence.
It is fitting that the symbol of this fake nationality would be a headdress that has been appropriated from elsewhere, and which Palestinian Arabs themselves did not wear for the most part until less than a hundred years ago. Nonetheless, the association is now unbreakable. The person who puts on a keffiyeh now is endorsing Jew-hatred, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The keffiyeh is this century’s Nazi symbol.
The Jews actually have our own version of this that is ancient, called the sudra. It seems Jews had to stop wearing them in the 15th century-both in N. Africa and Europe because since it marked them as Jews, they were targeted.
The sudra is making a comeback among Jews today. One can get them in blue and white. It can be used as a scarf,
for example. But it’s good to know it is an ancient Jewish garment worn by men.
Show a picture of the sudra please. It could be great for counter demonstrations.
It boggles the mind that anyone Jewish would wear a keffiyeh, but these campus Leftist are not rational.
It’s great that they wear them, we can spot them a mile away and avoid the idiots.
The downside is that the western cities are lost completely particularly in Britain where Two Tier Kier the ex human rights lawyer reigns.
And the Moo–Slum females cover themselves in a black potato sack from head to toe.
This is an Islamic female uniform designed to advertise the presence of depraved psychopathic murderous berserk freedom crushing Islam … wherever they go.
Depraved psychopathic murderous Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
The particular keffiyeh identified with Yasser Arafat in particular was stolen by him from Bob Dylan, from the famous cover of his double LP “Blonde On Blonde”.
BOB was Bob’s most popular album when it came out…..an instant classic which sold well (for his standards (it was not as if he was a Beatle or Stone)) all over the English speaking world and beyond.
Arafat had been dressing himself in military fatigues (so as to steal Fidel Castro’s signature look) since 1964, iirc. (More or less – I was quite young then.) but then Bob Dylan appeared on the cover of the international mega-hit LP, BOB, wearing that scarf around his neck. Voila!~ ….. The next thing you know, it is 1967 and Arafat was wearing the same scarf around his head! …. A brand new signature look. A rebranding, stolen from an ICONIC record album.
… An iconic record album recorded by a JEW no less (!), which no doubt made Arafat all the happier to steal it!
As far as I know of, Bob Dylan never wore that scarf again. (I may be wrong about this – if any of you know different, please correct me here….. I would like to know.)
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By the way, if any of you readers are new to Dylan (which I doubt but who knows) “Blonde On Blonde” remains his best original album 💽….. Buy a copy. 💽 Highly recommended. 🎶 …
Blood on the Tracks. Opinion.
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That would be my second favorite, actually.
I was so angry when I wrote that this morning, I didn’t proof-read it.
There were two needless redundancies in the first sentence, a less than optimal preposition, and a needless use of “of”.
Bill Clinton I ain’t.
I’m not quite to be enough to be a columnist. sigh°°
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Oh well… It has driven me crazy with anger for years that the public did not pick up on the Arafat rip-off of Dylan, and still hasn’t.
The left gets away with media murder while conservatives aren’t the least bit media savvy. sigh°°
Screwed by a spell check substitution!!!! 🤬
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[…] quite good enough […]
https://www.discogs.com/master/3773-Bob-Dylan-Blonde-On-Blonde
Islam doesn’t follow or copy the Nazis, the Nazis followed and copied Islam, briefly.
Vultures of a feather, flock together.
Two books could be seen for sale to muslims; “Mein Kampf”, and “Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid” written by another Jew hater, Jimmy Carter.
Peanut Dhimmi Carter said, “F#@k the Jews, I’ll really make them pay in my second term:” in 1980, 12 years before James Baker made a somewhat similar statement. When he was running the first time in 1976, Peanut Dhimmi, a liar without shame or subtlety, postured as an Evangelical who “Looooved the Jews” He later admitted that he had wanted to name notorious antisemite and Israel hater George Ball as Secretary of State but settled for career Arabist Cyrus Vance because of Congressional opposition. This abomination was given a Nobel Peace Prize for no good reason, like Yasser Arafat and Barack Hussein Osama.
“Towel head” is a racist error. The typical head rag is more like a small bed linen. Wearers are more correctly called “little sheet heads”.
I bought one when contracted to guard US assets in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The label says ‘made in China’.
The average Palestinian has view similar to Hitler . That’s why Gaza had a clothing store called “Hitler 2” featuring mannequins wielding daggers.
I keep waiting to see a poster of Big Brother wearing a keffiyeh.
I love 💕 Big Sister 🧕 !
The Fakestinians were invented by KGB operatives at Lumumba University and it was a brilliant move. Since 1948 Israel had obviously been a tiny nation for Jews in an immense sea of 100’s of millions of Arabs bent on killing them. With the invention of the Fakestinians suddenly Israel could be portrayed as Western Imperialist
bullies oppressing these ‘poor displaced Palestinians’ and the whole thing could be cast in the fashionable (at the time) movement for national ‘liberation’.
The greatest irony is the supreme indifference of both Arabs and Palestinians alike to the creation of a ‘nation state’. It is Muslim conquest and Jewish genocide alone that excites them.