Given that the official, elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza is Hamas, and given that it is Hamas's stated purpose to annihilate Jews and the nation of Israel, and given that the keffiyeh is worn as a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, how is parading in keffiyehs in support of the Palestinians, and thus Hamas, any different than Klansmen parading in white hoods in support of racial purity?
Both are symbols of hatred, the keffiyeh for Jews, the hood for minorities of any kind. Yet, although our media would be outraged if the Klan displayed their hatred for minorities by demonstrating on university campuses and in our cities, flaunting their hoods and robes, they seem to applaud Palestinian sympathizers displaying their hatred for Jews and Israel by flaunting their keffiyehs as they demonstrate in these same venues.
Someone may respond that support for the Palestinian people is not the same as support for Hamas, but that won't work. The Palestinian people have repeatedly elected Hamas to represent them and many of them cheered Hamas's barbaric butchery on October 7th. Indeed, many Palestinian citizens of Gaza participated in the slaughter, gleefully recording their atrocities on their cell phones, and even caught an escaped kidnap victim and returned him to Hamas.
Anyone who sports the keffiyeh today is choosing to identify with the perpetration of that horror. They're on the same moral plane, or lower, actually, as those who prance about in white robes and hoods applauding the lynchings of blacks and other minorities, and they're both a national disgrace.
