Alt Jews launch ‘Star of David’ keffiyehs, ‘piss off’ Arabs/Palestinians
Published on Thursday 2/4/2010 @ 10:03 AM by the ALT REPORT Robot
Keffiyehs, also known as ‘hipster scarves worn by ppl who are trying 2 hard 2 look alt’ have become a relevant fashion trend in the post-electro world. Apparently some Jewish/Israeli company made these as a ’sign of unity’/bloggable topic to inspire mad sales.
Message by the Alt Jew creators of this scarf/meme:
I as a Jew am not offended by the Pope who wears a “kippah” and in the same respect, I don’t feel there is any reason for anyone taking offense to a Jewish person wearing a version of the Keffiyah which they identify with; especially considering the significance of this article of clothing in both of all of our histories. There are numerous variations of the Keffiyah today; the red and white Keffiyah is associated with Jordan and worn throughout the Middle East and Somalia and have been worn by Bedouins for centuries. The black and white Keffiyah, idolized in the 1960s by Yasser Arafat, has become the symbol of the Palestinian resistance movement. The way that symbols are politicized and used to divide people, rather than as common ground for discussion and dialogue is exactly the kind of thought-provoking topic that we at Shemspeed explore with our music, as well as our programming. Our Israeli remix of the Keffiyeh, available through Shemspeed, is just one more interpretation of a scarf worn by our brothers for thousands of years. We hope you enjoy them.
Is Yasser Arafat ’spinning around in his grave’ because his #1 personal branding tool was stolen by his enemy?
Or did his head already explode when entry level alts started wearing them during the peak of the electro war?
Will AltJews ‘adopt’ this trend as a sign of resistance against mnstrms/Palestinians/
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/05/should-i-become-a-fabulous-altjew.html
Do u think this scarf is just ’stirring the pot’ and the Israeli-Palestine conflict will never be resolved?
Whose side should the USA be on?
30 comments to “Alt Jews launch ‘Star of David’ keffiyehs, ‘piss off’ Arabs/Palestinians”
February 4th, 2010 at 10:31 am
my chosen race was alienated & targeted 4 extermination. never again. now my chosen race has our own nation and the lesser race can be alienated behind giant walls and shit. never again bitch.
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//////////Reply by EricDeez
//////////Posted February 8th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
@a wet nigga, So is this guy one of the “chosen”?
http://vimeo.com/9238571
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February 4th, 2010 at 11:09 am
heeey!
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February 4th, 2010 at 11:14 am
a girl in my ‘art history’ class was wearing a keffiyah yesterday to look alt. people just look stupid wearing them. obviously ignorant to their true meaning. it’s like a walking advertisement that reads either “i support terrorism” or “i’m ignorant and don’t know the meaning of the shit i’m wearing.”
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//////////Reply by shmaltz
//////////Posted February 5th, 2010 at 6:45 am
@d, if you’re making a statement by wearing the black and white keffiyah, you’re expressing solidarity with Palestinians, granted, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to condoning terrorism. You can support the Palestinian people without condoning terrorism.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted February 5th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
@shmaltz, lolz u get ‘trolled’
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//////////Reply by d
//////////Posted February 8th, 2010 at 8:51 am
@shmaltz,
these scarfs are solidarity with palestinian ‘resistance.’ supporting the palestinian ‘resistance’ is a euphemism for supporting palestinian suicide bomings aka terrorism.
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
yall r retarded. keffiyehs have nothing to do with ‘terrists’
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
@ “wet nigga??” ur race is the jewz? and u call urself “wet nigga?” hahaha. that is 2 funny bro. ur about as “nigga” as barry manilow. it is too bad that ur peeps got killed and shit. but from the sounds of ur intellect, the world would be a lot better off if the peeps that spawned ur existence on this planet would have gotten exterminated too.
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//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 4th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
@ry, youre dumb as hell
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//////////Reply by ry
//////////Posted February 4th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
@a wet nigga, with a can of Raid
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//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 4th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
@ry, you are the biggest noob alive if u think posts like that are srs
February 4th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Yasser was such an alt icon. Check him out sporting the wayfarers, keffiyeh, and pre-post-ironic facial hair. gnarls.
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//////////Reply by ho
//////////Posted February 4th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
@anonybro, he was also gay and died of a certain mysterious blood disease.
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
as a palestinian, i am sad that white people ruined keffiyehs
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//////////Reply by tom servo
//////////Posted February 8th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
@M, bitch, some of you Palestinians be having some blonde hair and blue eyes. You’re whiter than my English/German American ass. And besides, keffiyehs were quite the hit with blipsters, too.
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February 4th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
this is ‘bound 2 flop.’ yall should stick to making delicious bagels. i understand that yall wanted ‘2 be apart of something’ but couldn’t given reactions from ur fellow hebrews. think u missed the boat tho bros.
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February 4th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
miss u UO palestinian scarves [via current inability to spot entry lvls 4 tugs]
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
lawl @ “both of all of our histories”
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February 4th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Like someone cares, tell them sand niggers to get back in their hole
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Recently spilled kafir on my goddam keffiyeh. [via popular pop brand Vampy Weekbros]
Saw some entry lvlrs in my lit class trying 2 ‘pull it off.’ Wish they were more self-aware.
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I bought a ‘Palestinian’ black/white keffiyeh online and they sent me 12.
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Actually it was Jews who popularized wearing the Keffiyeh outside the Middle East to begin with, via College JewAlts @ Brandeis who supported the Palestinians. Miss U late 90’s. So this is nothing new.
I also have one of those T-shirts with a portrait of Anne Frank wearing a Keffiyeh. Miss U 2006.
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February 5th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
http://arabism-islamism.webs.com
The twin fascisms that causes most massacres, wars, “conflicts” today:
Arabism is racism (Arab racism)
Millions upon Millions are/became victims of Arabism which is the worst current form of racism in its gigantic proportions, like: Kurds Jews (not just in Israel…) Berbers (the real natives of North Africa), Africans (noty just in the genocide in the Sudan & in Egypt on native Nubians by Arab invaders – till today), Persians, etc.
Islamism is bigotry (Islamofascism)!
The Islamic supremacy that “works” towards its vision of “final Islamic domination on the entire planet”, from Middle east to Africa from Asia to Eurabia, from terrorism & massacres in multiple countries (like: Thailand, Phillipines, China, Indonesia, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon India, USA, France, Israel, Russia, UK, etc.) to propaganda,
Let’s face it! that entire war on Israel & the Jews since the 1920’s by their facsist Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini who started the “genocide campaign” [and continues by the children/grand children of Arab immigrants into Israel - Palestine - now convenienently called "palestinians"] in a clear outlined declaration to ‘kill all Jews’, is nothing but out of pure Arab Muslim bigotry.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted February 6th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
@ggiel, feel like saying ‘Arabs are racist’ is a lil racist. They r probz sensitive about what u call their ‘gigantic proportions.’ Feel like u calling Muslims bigots is ‘a lil bigoted.’ Feel like this was ‘entry lvl satire’ yall.
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February 5th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
mad right wing pro-israeli commenters.
terrible.
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February 8th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
What do you mean whose side SHOULD the U.S. be on?
U.S. military aid to Israel is slated to top $3.2 billion dollars a year through 2018. It is clear what side we are on.
Palestinians have lived under Israeli military occupation since 1967. Anyone know how the state of Israel was founded in 1948? In an ethnic cleansing that created 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.
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//////////Reply by d
//////////Posted February 8th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
@g.e.,
this is a pretty strong statement and lacks a lot of nuance. not really worth responding to. Read some history about the UN partition, arab invasion in an effort to ’send the jews into the sea’ and about how all the jews living in most arab countries were expelled following the foundation of israel.
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February 8th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
The majority of Americans don’t wear Keffiyahs to show solidarity with the Palestinians. They just wear it because they think it’s cool and makes them look like hipsters. Who cares what people use as scarves. As to g.e.’s post: you’re an idiot. You clearly have no clue as to the history of the state of Israel.
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May 2nd, 2010 at 2:55 am
i actually wear a black and white keffiyeh specifically to show my ’solidarity’ with the palestinians. also i live in a p. mnstrm ‘less-relvant’ city so keffiyehs r still a lil alt here
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