http://www.reuters.com/resources/flash/include_video.swf?edition=UK&videoId=102115
I am posting this Reuters video about the growing popularity of the keffiyeh/kuffiyah/kufiya among Israelis as a preemptive strike against future claims that it is an Israeli scarf. If I had the foresight and was alive then, I would have done the same for falafel and hummous. They take our land, claim our food, and now our aesthetics. What next?
On a separate note pertaining to the domestic political context, Fayyad commented:
The college girl raises an interesting point I had not thought of before. She wanted a stylish Kuffiyah and one that is not associated with Fatah, Hamas, or PFLP. Given the polarization and division on the street in Palestine, no wonder that “salata” kuffyiahs, as the shop keeper called them, are taking off.
[tarboush tip: Um Mazen]
Related posts:
- Keffiyeh infiltrates our nation’s youth
- Keffiyeh Spotting: George W. Bush’s niece
- Another Keffiyeh Kerfuffle
- Illegal Israeli settlements get tax breaks
- The Myth of Israel’s “Targeted” Killing
They even stole Juha…
Posted by Jerusalemite | April 20, 2009, 2:47 pmOn the contrary, chick peas have been grown, eaten and made hoummus of long before islam even existed or any Arabs lived in Palestine, which by the way is a name stolen by Arabs in Israel, same with the keffiyeh, although it is an arab word there is proof that scarfs like that was worn long before Arab language, it was worn by Jesus followers for example, oh yeah, the same Jesus you guys call Issa and also are trying to steal… and the Koran? -without the Bible there wouldnt be a Koran since Muhammed based his ideas on the Old & New testaments!
Posted by Jewsus | January 15, 2010, 3:46 amWhile you continue muttering about "your" aesthetics, Israelis are continuing to intermarry among the many communities that united during the in-gathering and amalgamate into a new identity that includes everything each community brought in. And yes, that includes cuisine and aesthetics to which they have as much a claim as you do.
Posted by Ghoul Sahyouni | January 29, 2010, 6:42 pmThe history of the Palestinian Keffiyeh is notably different. Palestinians never had the present scarf we associated with them today prior to the occupation. They had a back and white scarf, with a different more open pattern inside. The one we see today represents a chain-link fence, a direct reference to the apartheid occupation Israel inflicts on Palestine today. So if Zionist-Israeli's knew that I wonder if they would still wear them. It is also the reason that it is hard to buy this scarf in Jordan, there the minority-Bedouin rooted government wants to erase this scarf of solidarity, and replace it with the red and white one of Jordan, even though 90% of the population is made of Palestinian refugees…..
Posted by Gail Alfar | April 27, 2010, 6:20 pm