Intifada Fashions Take a Hit

Intifada fashions are taking a hit.

First, a Danish clothing firm, Fighters and Lovers, was recently found guilty of selling shirts with the logos of the Palestinian PFLP, and Colombia's FARC. In 2006, Fighters and Lovers said they would donate five Euros for every shirt sold to the PFLP and FARC, which the US and EU label as terror organizations.

And now, The Guardian finds that Palestinian businesses who produce keffiyahs are being run out of business by cheap, Chinese imports. Moreover:

But Awad says that these days, it is less widely used as a neckwear nationalist emblem by the younger generation of Palestinians. He provides one possible explanation: "The image of the keffiyeh as a symbol of resistance was tarnished by events in Afghanistan and Iraq, where it is used by terrorists, by anyone who wants to hide their face," he says.

Related reading: US Chain Pulls "Anti-War" Keffiyehs

Posted at 03:42 PM