Re: Jewish Journalist Arrested for Objecting to Islamic Terror Symbol in Grocery Store

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

https://rairfoundation.com/jewish-journalist-sloan-rachmuth-arrested-objecting-islamic-terror/

Sloan Rachmuth, a Jewish journalist and political commentator, was
arrested at her home in front of her terrified children on November
3, 2024. Her alleged crime? According to Rachmuth, she objected to a
supermarket employee at Harris Teeter wearing the controversial keffiyeh,
a political symbol widely associated with Hamas and its ambitions to
destroy Israel and the Jewish people worldwide.

Clearly, her arrest was outrageous. If the supermarket clerk was making
a political statement by wearing it, the woman was allowed to make her
own statement by writing about it.

The arrest of the author was censorship.

The arrest also appears to be revenge as the woman was not allowed to
make complaints with local police when she and her husband, Israeli, had
received threats, with the police chief calling the threats protected
speech.

I'm posting to raise an objection to the article calling the keffiyeh,
typically a male-worn scarf, controversial and "a political symbol
widely associated with Hamas and its ambitions to destroy Israel and the
Jewish people worldwide."

Some people who wear it believe all Jews should die, but Hamas didn't
invent the garment. Arafat used to wear one with a specific pattern
common to Palestinians. Looking it up, rural peoples in the Ottoman
Empire period wore one; those in urban areas wore a tarboosh (fez).
During the Arab Revolt of the 1930s (against the British Mandate), men
in urban areas adopted the keffiyeh and stopped wearing the tarboosh.