Anachronistic ([info]pester) wrote in [info]weirdjews,
@ 2007-01-14 10:08:00
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Quick, everyone, pop quiz!

What is this:


Well, according to Urban Outfitters, it's an anti-war scarf.

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[info]ephraim_oakes
2007-01-14 06:23 pm UTC (link)
trust me, palestinian solidarity folks are not any more thrilled about the keffiya being co-opted as a symbol of vapid commercial hipsterism than you are.

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[info]pester
2007-01-14 06:25 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I can imagine.

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[info]shirei_shibolim
2007-01-14 06:25 pm UTC (link)
Does it even say which war? I assumed Iraq, though the message is equally problematic. ("Being against the war is an Arab thing.")

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[info]ladyhawke_wings
2007-01-14 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Well, my first reaction was - "Wow, that's disturbing!". Although, if it catches on, it will become difficult to know which scarves are Palestinian Solidarity and which are anti-war....effectively diluting the branding of the symbol. Probably drives the Palestinians nuts.

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[info]brun_fid
2007-01-14 06:48 pm UTC (link)
I think it's all in how you fold it..



That, from the same product, looks a lot more like a scarf of some kind.

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[info]galads_forest
2007-01-14 06:49 pm UTC (link)
Funny... at first glance, I thought that it was a keffiya with tzitzit. Now wouldn't THAT be an interesting juxtaposition.

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[info]ephraim_oakes
2007-01-14 07:08 pm UTC (link)
been done:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewschool/sets/1461034/

and

http://jewschool.com/2006/11/22/the-kaffiyeh-yisraelit/

via Mobius of jewschool

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[info]galads_forest
2007-01-15 09:21 am UTC (link)
That's hilarious!

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[info]otakushan
2007-01-14 09:47 pm UTC (link)
If that's an anti-war scarf, I have a pro-war beanie to sell you.

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[info]loyehudhara
2007-01-14 11:37 pm UTC (link)
was not the original meaning of the kaffiyeh to indicate "Arab farmer" vs "Arab non-farmer", though it might have been the other way around?

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[info]lavendersparkle
2007-01-14 11:53 pm UTC (link)
I've been a bit confused for ages about what wearing that scarf was supposed to symbolise. Then I looked around my campus and from looking at who was wearing it deduced that it meant "I am a vapid student who, despite spending more time thinking about clothes than my degree subject, cannot come up with an outfit that isn't the same as what my vapid friends wear. I only support political causes that match my shoes."

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[info]ginamariewade
2007-01-15 05:09 am UTC (link)
WHen it first came up on my flist, I thought it was a squashed insect of some kind.

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[info]mick_hale
2007-01-15 05:34 am UTC (link)
I wonder how well the green one will sell over the other kinds.

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[info]evillottie
2007-01-15 09:43 am UTC (link)
URBAN OUTFITTERS?!!!!!!
I hate the keffiyeh fashion. It's huge in the UK, and loads of people wear them at music festivals. I doubt the majority of them know where it originally comes from, and if you make like [Unknown LJ tag] did and discuss Middle Eastern politics with them they'll say something ridiculous like, "It was these filthy fucking Jews that killed all these little Palestinian children and they're evil and controlling the world's media and bla bla bla."

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[info]spin0za1
2007-01-15 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Jesus H. Christ on a stick...

I've had a khaffiyeh since I was a little girl that my grandmother brought back from Israel. And I noted at the time that made a good scarf. Then few years ago at college I started to notice that all the anti-Zionist student activists (who never had anything even remotely intelligent to say) started wearing them. I didn't make the connection at first, but when I did I was... and still am... rather pissed. Cause I have this piece of cloth/clothing that is rather dear to me that I now cannot use without conveying something that I do not wish to convey.

Anti-war scarf my ass. Bloody peasants.

And yes, it is a very useful article of clothing when hiking in a desert.

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