"Professor Occupy" & the Bloody History of the Keffiyeh Scarf
Student activists demand “humanitarian aid" so they don’t “die of dehydration”, all while wearing their keffiyeh scarves soaked in the blood of thousands of innocent children.
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Allow me to introduce you to America’s best known “protest consultant”, 63-year-old Lisa Fithian. Fithian is responsible for inspiring an army of protestors over the years who run out into the streets for a few days and then forget all about it while Fithian moves on somewhere else.
‘I create crisis,'” Fithian told the New York Times in 2003.
Fithian’s life as a rabble-rouser started in the 1970s when she was just one more run-of-the-mill protestor. By the 2011 Occupy WallStreet protests, she had somewhere between 80 and 100 arrests under her belt (she’s lost count) over nearly four decades of rabble-rousing. And by 2012, she’d figured out how to make a career out of it and was charging $300 a day to run demonstrations and teach members tactics for taking over the streets.
“When there is some conflict, or things aren’t going the way that we want them to go, or people don’t have a good long-term plan,” said 27-year-old Jason Ahmadi, during the Occupy Wallstreet days, “I have heard others and myself say, ‘Dammit, where is Lisa Fithian?'”
The activist’s latest stunt appears to be instructing protesters who stormed the Columbia academic building to cries for “intifada.”
“Tie it right to the lock,” she told two masked protesters holding zip ties, according to video posted on social media. The protesters did as they were told, using the ties on a metal table pressed against the door of Hamilton Hall.
Could it be possible these budding agitators have lost sight of what they are protesting about? Or did they ever know in the first place?
At least in the 1960s when Fithian started out, youth had some understanding of what and why they were protesting. Kids are, after all, self-centered creatures, and the Vietnam War affected them directly. They could be drafted and fight and maybe die for a cause they did not believe in.
The war in Gaza is not their war but their radical professors and social media influencers have made them believe it is. At least for five minutes, which is about as long as anyone’s attention span is these days. Thanks to the indoctrination of their leftist professors, youth at these Ivy League colleges really have no concept of what’s going on in the Middle East.
And let’s be honest, nor do they really care. Summer will soon be here and like the antifa and BLM protests of that long gone, so affectionately called, “summer of love”, they will all go home, and the wild days on campus will fade away. Except for those who have been expelled. But not to worry, their parents will sue the schools and get a lot of money and even more publicity for the horrors they experienced.
Because, at the end of the day, it’s not about Gaza, it’s about them.
Entitled spoiled youngsters like the earnest young woman below, have turned the protests into a bad joke, demanding “humanitarian aid” so they don’t “die of dehydration”.
Couldn’t Lisa Fithian organize a “boots on the ground” training session for these students—especially the young women. I’ll help organize it. They can spend a few months in the Egyptian desert, married to Egyptian men who will just tell them to shut up when they dare to complain.
All it takes to get married is what’s called an “Orfi” contract. They can do it in about an hour. Trust me, by the end of a week, they will be begging to come back to the oppressive United States and their privileged lifestyles.
Just like Brittany Griner. Remember her—the WNBA basketball star who hated the United States with a passion? That is, until she was sentenced to 9 years in a Russian jail for “drug smuggling” because she had some marijuana in her suitcase. She was another entitled celebrity who thought she was special and didn’t need to obey the laws in Russia, while at the same time she could stomp on the American flag in her own country, because, you know, in Ameria we have that thing called “freedom”. She was begging to come home just like these protestors would be.
But there they all are, like some kind of cookie-cutter, Stepford Wives, wearing their keffiyeh, girls and boys alike. In the meantime, sellers of keffiyehs are making a “killing”.
“It was like a light switch. All of a sudden, we had hundreds of people on the website simultaneously and buying whatever they could,” said Azar Aghayev, the US distributor for Hirbawi, the only manufacturer of keffiyehs in the West Bank.
“In two days, the stock that we had was just gone, and not just gone, it was oversold.”
Amazon is always ready to take advantage of the latest craze. Between October 7 and December 2, sales of keffiyeh scarves rose 75 percent on Amazon.com compared with the previous 56 days:
Searches for “Palestinian scarf for women” rose by 159 percent in the three months to December 4 compared with the previous three months; searches for “military scarf shemagh,” “keffiyeh palestine” and “keffiyeh” rose 333 percent, 75 percent, and 68 percent, respectively.
Hazami Barmada, 38 said that “donning the scarf felt like a ‘superpower,’ reconnecting her with her Palestinian heritage and offering a symbolic link to children in Gaza.
Well, okay. Let’s look at that heritage and what the keffiyeh represents.
The keffiyeh scarf started as a practical garment worn as protection against the desert sun and sand. In fact, at the turn of the 20th century, both Jewish and Arab communities wore the keffiyeh.
It was Yassar Arafat that turned the keffiyeh into a symbol of the “Palestinian cause”.
“The keffiyeh’s prominence soared notably in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), adopted and popularized the garment. Arafat’s distinctive style, featuring the keffiyeh draped over his head and shoulders, became synonymous with the Palestinian cause.” (1)
In 1974, Arafat, as leader of the PLO, addressed the United Nations while wearing the keffiyeh. And as a friend just reminded me, he was also packing a gun. In his address, he urged the UN to “firmly oppose any discrimination against any human being as to religion race or color” by Israel. He further objected to those who “call us terrorists”.
That he had the audacity to make such a speech, indeed, that he was given the legitimacy to do so, is unconscionable.
Only 2 years earlier 8 members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September had infiltrated the Olympic Village and had killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, taking 9 others hostage, resulting in the Munich Olympics massacre.
Just 6 months prior to Arafat’s speech, members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) had been responsible for the Ma’alot massacre.
115 Israelis, chiefly school children, were taken hostage, resulting in 22 children being killed with grenades and automatic weapons. Ultimately, 25 hostages were killed and 68 more were injured. Time magazine, noted at the time that the attack was aimed primarily at undermining Israeli–Egyptian peace talks between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat and damaging Israel's tourism sector.
In 2017, Palestinians reinstalled the monument to the Ma’alot terrorist who masterminded the attack.
But hey, Yassar Arafat was all for peace and it’s a lie to say otherwise. As it’s a lie to call the PLO, Fatah or Hamas terrorist organizations today. They are resistance fighters—by any means necessary.
4 years prior to Arafat’s speech, the Avivim school bus massacre killed 12 civilians, nine of them children. 25 were wounded, one of whom died of a wound sustained in the attack 44 years later.
The terror attacks did not stop. In March 1978, the Coastal Road massacre killed 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, while 76 more were wounded.
To find a full list of Yassar Arafat’s terrorist exploits, read Hard Facts: From the River to the Sea.
I’m quite sure Yassar Arafat is laughing in hell at what a good job he did of selling his terrorist propaganda to an impressionable American youth, fed to them by the likes of Professor Occupy, Lisa Fithian, all while wearing their keffiyeh scarves, soaked in the blood of innocent children.
Cluelessly useful idiot privileged children whose strings are pulled by Communist hoodlum community organizers like FILTHIAN who in turn have been brainwashed to do the bidding of MARX, LENIN, HERBERT MARCUSE and SAUL ALINSKY.
It's all about how it feels so very special and edgy, to be part of the hordes throwing a mass public temper tantrum in their safe spaces
Thanks for the history lesson on the keffiyeh. I was actually looking for some background on it today and this was very informative. It bothers me that so many people are wearing them. As a child of the ‘80s. I have always associated them with terrorism and to see students not only donning them but using them to obscure their faces - it’s really unsettling.