You think Jimmy Carter has problems. Yesterday on the progressive Jewish blog, Jewschool, Mobius noted that Urban Outfitters was selling kaffiyehsthe Arab scarf popularized by Yasir Arafatas “antiwar scarves”:
I went to the Urban Outfitters site today and now you can’t even see the picture of the scarf; and the retailer announces:
Score another victory for Abe Foxman! This is actually fascinating as a symbol. Because truly, the antiwar movement in this country is now divided/stymied/unable-to-coalesce because of the unwillingness of many liberal Democrats to identify the Israeli Occupation as a source of problems in the Middle East.