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  • One pro-Israel student described “pro-Palestinian thugs gathered outside the Hillel office, some covering their faces with keffiyahs, chanting hateful statements and using intimidation” in a description posted on Facebook.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Men wore similar long robes plus keffiyahs folded to shade the eyes and cover the back of the neck.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Men wore similar long robes plus keffiyahs folded to shade the eyes and cover the back of the neck.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • In Trafalgar Square itself thousands of even angrier people milled about; young men in keffiyahs chanted epithets against Zionists, their fury accompanied by placards with Stars of David superimposed on swastikas and slogans denouncing genocidal, war criminal Israel.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I witnessed crowds of very angry white, middle-class, respectable Britons wearing keffiyahs and piling onto the Tube from the very start of the Northern Line in faraway Barnet.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • One pro-Israel student described “pro-Palestinian thugs gathered outside the Hillel office, some covering their faces with keffiyahs, chanting hateful statements and using intimidation” in a description posted on Facebook.

    Rashomon at York 2009

  • I witnessed crowds of very angry white, middle-class, respectable Britons wearing keffiyahs and piling onto the Tube from the very start of the Northern Line in faraway Barnet.

    ..and even uglier 2009

  • In Trafalgar Square itself thousands of even angrier people milled about; young men in keffiyahs chanted epithets against Zionists, their fury accompanied by placards with Stars of David superimposed on swastikas and slogans denouncing genocidal, war criminal Israel.

    ..and even uglier 2009

  • Men in the desert wear keffiyahs for exactly the same reasons.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The council members, adorned in traditional keffiyahs and gold-braided regalia, pleaded with Norris for more public-works projects.

    The Coming Normalcy? 2006

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