The Forward25d
‘A sense of wariness’ for many Jews when they see keffiyehs in public
They recognized it immediately as a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian headscarf that has been adopted by protesters on the left, and they saw it as a threat. “This banner, supporting the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency24d
‘I was triggered’: Some Jews are struggling as they encounter keffiyehs in their daily lives
They recognized it immediately as a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian headscarf that has been adopted by protesters on the left, and they saw it as a threat. “This banner, supporting the ...
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Everything You’ve Heard About the Keffiyeh Is Wrong
One of their key targets? The iconic Palestinian scarf known as the keffiyeh. Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz claimed that “there is no difference” between a protester wearing a keffiyeh ...
Religion News Service6d
From DC to the Vatican, baby Jesus is wearing a keffiyeh
The manger has been replaced with a pile of rocks, and the baby Jesus is swaddled not with a thin blanket but with a black-and-white keffiyeh, the Middle Eastern-style scarf that has become a symb ...
The Times of Israel17d
After Oct. 7, Diaspora Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public
They recognized it immediately as a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian headscarf that has been adopted by protesters on the left, and they saw it as a threat. “This banner, supporting the ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs24d
Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public
They recognized it immediately as a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian headscarf that has been adopted by protesters on the left, and they saw it as a threat. “This banner, supporting the ...
Il Messaggero5d
Controversy Surrounds Nativity Scene Featuring Jesus in a Palestinian Keffiyeh at the Vatican
Last year, it was the Lutheran reverend, Munther Isaac, who placed a Baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh on a pile of rubble in the nativity scene he set up in his chapel in the West Bank ...
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Keffiyeh Sales Are on the Rise in the US as Some Americans Show Solidarity With Palestinians
U.S. distributors of keffiyehs, scarves often worn as headdresses that have become symbols of Palestinian resistance, say they have sold out of their inventories as some Americans don them in ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs6d
Baby Jesus in keffiyeh unveiled in Vatican nativity
A nativity scene featuring baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh was unveiled at Pope Francis’ Nativity Scene and Christmas Tree inauguration on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. The piece ...
Daily Mail6d
Pope Francis sends pointed message to Israel with detail in Nativity scene
A noticeable addition this year saw the seminal scene's baby Jesus draped in a keffiyeh - a traditional scarf used by Palestinians as a national symbol. Jesus was born into a Jewish family in ...
BBC7mon
Victoria state parliament bans keffiyeh scarves
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 ...