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Any more questions about whether the kaffiyeh is “just a scarf,” or a well-known symbol of Palestinian “resistance?” An article by Mafaz al-Suwaidan in the very leftist, pro-Palestinian Toronto Star makes the point beautifully: More than just a chic checkered scarf. “The kaffiyeh is a visual extension of our ...
Toronto Star, Canada, dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
A store employee in Australia has gotten in trouble for wearing a kaffiyeh: Keffiyeh kerfuffle hits Bondi bottleshop. More overreacting right-wingers, seeing terrorist symbols where they don’t exist? No; this time a Palestinian customer complained because she was wearing it for fashion reasons, rather than as a political statement. ...
Australia, dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
If you object to celebrities wearing well-known symbols of Palestinian terrorism, you’re a racist. Amahl Bishara, an anthropology lecturer at the University of Chicago who specializes in media matters relating to the Middle East, said complaints about the scarf’s use in the ad demonstrate misunderstandings of Arab culture and ...
Racism, dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
Would you believe I’m still getting hate mail from leftists and Rachael Ray fans over this post? As usual, the “progressives” refuse to see anything wrong with the mainstreaming of the kaffiyeh, and deliberately misconstrue the criticisms in outlandish ways—for example, claiming that I said Dunkin’ Donuts and Rachael Ray ...
dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
Received from Dunkin’ Brands Customer Service this morning (along with two more hate mails from Rachael Ray fans): Thank you for expressing your concern regarding the Rachael Ray advertisement. In the ad that you reference, Rachael is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design that was ...
LGF, Kaffiyeh, Palestinians, Terrorism, Intifada, Symbology, dunkin donuts
I didn’t believe this story when people first started emailing about it; but sure enough, it’s true. Dunkin Donuts, the venerable old fried dough seller, is the latest American firm to casually promote the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and the intifada, the kaffiyeh, via Rachael Ray: Dunkin’ Breakfast Choices. ...
dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
Good news from Paris, where the suit against whistleblower Philip Karsenty by France2 television (over the Mohammed al-Dura fraud) has been dismissed.
Richard Landes has an excellent detailed account of the France 2-Mohammed Al Dura trial going on in Paris: France2 Accused: The Appeals Case Takes Another Turn. And one of the most disheartening things about his report is the inexplicable failure of the Israeli government to stand up and defend themselves ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
“Youths” in the suburbs of Paris are escalating their intifada against French society, ambushing and firing on police. PARIS: Dozens of hooded attackers fired buckshot and nails at police this weekend, wounding four officers, France’s interior minister said. Michele Alliot-Marie called the Sunday afternoon attack an “ambush,” saying that ...
An independent French ballistics expert has concluded that IDF bullets didn’t kill Mohammed al-Dura. A report presented to a French court last week by an independent ballistics expert maintains that the death of Mohammed al-Dura, a Palestinian child seen being shot in the Gaza Strip during the first days ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a massive raid on the Muslim housing projects in the suburbs of Paris. VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - More than 1,000 police, some wearing black hoods, raided housing projects outside Paris in a massive sweep Monday, kicking open doors and detaining 33 people in a ...
Things were pretty calm in Paris over New Year’s Eve—only 372 cars torched. PARIS (Reuters) - Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as “relatively calm.” Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and ...
At PJ Media, Roger L. Simon interviews Philippe Karsenty about his involvement in the France 2 Mohammed al-Dura case: Sued by French TV: A Conversation with Philippe Karsenty.
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
As part of the propaganda show around the Mohammed al-Dura incident, the father of the boy was paraded in front of cameras with “wounds” supposedly caused by Israeli bullets. Now Nidra Poller has a PJ Media report from France on newly discovered medical records that prove those wounds date back ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
Another night in the banlieue, as the “youths” establish dominance over French police: Youths riot for 3rd night outside Paris. VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to ...
Another night of violence in the suburbs of Paris: Police hurt in 2nd night of Paris suburb unrest. VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France (Reuters) - At least 40 French police were hurt late on Monday in running battles with scores of rioters in a suburb north of Paris where two youths died ...
The “youths” are rioting in the banlieue again: Clashes, buildings torched in Paris suburb. PARIS - Dozens of youths clashed with police and set fire to buildings in a Paris suburb on Sunday after two teenagers were killed in a crash with a police car. The pair ...
Media Backspin has a report on the screening of the Mohamed Al-Dura film in France, where the court discovered that about 9 minutes of the video had mysteriously gone missing. HonestReporting together with Take-A-Pen covered this afternoon’s hearing in France where raw footage of the Mohammed Dura was publicly ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
A good piece on the media’s complicity with terrorist propaganda, by Richard Landes: Al-Dura and the ‘Public Secret’ of Middle East Journalism. In the summer of 2006, Reuters News Agency, humiliated when bloggers caught them duped by obvious photographic manipulation, fired both the photographer and the chief of their ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
Remember Hatem Bazian? The UC Berkeley lecturer who called for ’An Intifada in This Country’? When the Daily Californian’s Ethan Strauss attended a speech by Bazian on October 6, he was assaulted by thugs who grabbed his camera and demanded to know why he was there: The Daily Clog: No ...
LGF, Berkeley, Hatem Bazian, Intifada, Radical Islam, Fifth Column
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office has finally denounced the infamous France 2 footage of Mohammed al-Dura as staged. (IsraelNN.com) Seven years after Arab 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura was allegedly killed in Gaza, the Prime Minister’s Office has released a statement saying that a video supposedly showing al-Dura’s death was staged. ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
A French court has ordered France 2 television to produce the unedited tapes of the Mohammed al-Dura incident. The most damaging case of fauxtography in history may finally be unraveling.
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
The IDF has sent a letter to France 2 Television, demanding that they release the unedited version of the Mohammed al-Dura tape. I don’t understand why they didn’t do this right away, instead of waiting seven years. The damage caused by France 2’s treachery has been immense. The IDF ...
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood
Here’s a great cartoon from RedPlanetCartoons, inspired by this LGF post: UPDATE at 9/10/07 1:52:16 pm: Zombie has a related post: Kaffiyehs as Fashion.
LGF, Cartoon, Intifada, Kaffiyeh, Useful Idiots, Progressives, Moonbats
There’s an online petition demanding that France 2 Television release their unaired footage of the Muhammed Al Durah incident. Augean Stables has more: Sign the Petition: France2: Release the Secret Tapes!
LGF, Mohammed al Dura, Muhammed al Durah, Intifada, Palestinians, Pallywood