Posted on 05/28/2008 4:29:17 PM PDT by rmlew
I’ve been a fan of Dunkin’ Donuts for years. Their Munchkins are heaven. Their coffee is better and cheaper than Starbucks. And the company’s management has taken a brave and lonely stand in support of immigration enforcement — refusing to hire illegal aliens and blowing the whistle on applicants with bogus Social Security numbers.
So it was with some dismay that I learned last week that Dunkin’ Donuts spokeswoman Rachael Ray, the ubiquitous TV hostess, posed for one of the company’s ads in what appeared to be a black-and-white keffiyeh.
The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.
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Rachel Ray is not wearing a keffiyah, just an ulgy scarf. It does have some paisley-type motif on part of it which gives it away as a non-keffiyah scarf.
while UO should have rolled the collection from Spring to Summer already (scarf would not be part of the Summer inventory), but I still see the scarfs on sale at the UO nearby.
...and ... it really is just an ugly scarf.
That, I believe, is a “doctored” photo of Rachel Ray with the black bra and turkey. Her head looks like it was attached in photoshop...and she doesn’t have such gorgeous legs! She’s a chunkie, phony chef who’s made millions due to her personality and sheer luck, NOT her cooking!
Based on this picture, this chick is clearly a complete idiot. Who doesn't know that the kaffiah is the filthy garment of the extreme ignorant college Che t-shirt wearing pro-so-called palestinian crowd???? Why doesn't Dunkin Donut just put a picture of Arafat in their ads and be done with it?
I guess all the execs at Dunkin Donuts are as ignorant as this crazy chick.
I saw her in person once. Her personality is slightly annoying, but she’s seriously cute. I’m very superficial and cute usually does it for me.
It doesn’t look like a keffiyeh.
Is that Kramer in the pan?
Well that narrows it down so we can all be on the lookout now. /s
I'm surprised, this was an issue in winter 06 and early 07. UO claimed to have pulled them from their stores. Guess they have to do something with them. Maybe cleaning rags.
I've never heard that term, but campus' are where you'll find them. Anti-Israel or anti-war demonstrations.
Or Crips blue; Bloods red; Oakland Raiders 'gang wear'; Whatever Girl-Gang It Is pink; reversed ball caps (I wore mine that way in the 1950s & 1960s).
I know there are more colors, styles, motifs, and patterns banned as 'gang wear' or for other reasons.
It does become almost as ridiculous as the "must wear" 'Somethingorother' Chastity Bracelet; POW/MIA bracelet; red (not to be confused with Bloods red) AIDS (Or is that MADD?) bracelet; yellow "troops" bracelet; black "I don't remember what" bracelet; et-stupid, redundant-cetera.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot: Can't (high school, 1960s) wear green on Thursday/Queersday! No; not even if green IS the major color in your clan's tartan!
We're supposed to have & use a brain, and leave the knee-jerk drooling to the moonbats.
That they're marketed, not all that successfully, as palestinian solidarity and anti-war (Iraq) symbols is beyond question. Did Rachel Ray know that, who knows, but she doesn't strike me as politically aware, so my guess no. The guy at the ad agency who set up the shot, you bet. Similarly, remember the many incidents where corporations are embarassed because suddenly their websites or travel schedules or phone directories no longer list Israel, rather palestine. Same thing, and not an accident.
Do you know where she bought this scarf?
Urban Outfitters initially pulled the keffiyeh merchandise and apologized when Jewish customers protested, but reintroduced them with different names and colors in several global markets. This is the same company that marketed a bigotry-laced “Everyone loves a Jewish girl” T-shirt stamped with dollar signs and shopping bags. Most recently, the company halted sales of a violence-promoting T-shirt last week depicting a young Palestinian boy in a keffiyeh carrying an AK-47 assault rifle, over the word “Victimized.” The T-shirt also featured the Palestinian flag, a map of the Palestinian territories and a small white dove
No, but they're not uncommon over here.
You'll note the comments above about Urban Outfitters who sold the original anti-war scarf. Replaced after the controversy by the trendy Skull Desert Scarf, essentially the anti-war palestinian solidarity scarf with an SS skull.
I thought they quit after that fiasco, but this is still on their UK website, and looks to be what she's wearing, now known as the Lace Print Silk Scarf, redesigned a bit with no skull. I wasn't aware they were selling these in the US, but others do, and the symbolism is clear.
Remember last month when, writing about the Kaffiyeh Yisraelit, I said “in hipster enclaves such as Berlin and Brooklyn, the kaffiyeh is so ubiquitous it’s already passe [and] as a fashion item it is viewed by many in the Palestinian solidarity movement as a trivialization of the Palestinian struggle”?
Well, the kaffiyeh just got 10 TIMES MORE PASSE and 10 TIMES MORE TRIVIALIZED, thanks to Urban Outfitters (proprietors of the once famed money grubbing Jew t-shirts) who are now selling a variety of different colored kaffiyehs as — get this — anti-war scarves.
Ah yes, the anti-war scarf.
As you can see, it goes quite well with the anti-war RPG launcher.
It also functions rather nicely with the anti-war AK-47.
And, of course, don’t forget to accessorize with the matching anti-war suicide belt.
(Now available in children’s sizes.)
Considering the fact that Urban Outfitter’s CEO is a huge financial contributor to both the GOP and Rick Santorum’s PAC, you have to wonder if this was an intentional attempt to water down the cause celebre. “Well that ought to kill these things off once and for all…”
Yet I suspect it may have the opposite effect. Every ignorant kaffiyeh wearer (of which there will now be thousands) is a potential anti-Zionist convert, whether engaged by the pro-Israel camp or the pro-Palestinian camp. The pro-Palestinian camp will elicit their sympathy, using the kaffiyeh as an opportunity to engage them in conversation, while the pro-Israel camp will simply shout epithets at the wearer and terrorize them into Jew-hatred. (I’m sure some readers are already ramping up their e-mail clients to send nasty letters to URBN.)
Oh, how capitalism trumps all allegiances…
The only thing I could say about this scarf is that it’s possible the designer was inspired by a Palestinian kefiyeh & made a western-style scarf that vaguely resembles it. We have no way of knowing that unless we can find out whether it came from a place like Urban Outfitters or not, which is why I asked. Other than that, it looks nothing like a kefiyeh.
Was it cold outside or windy; or was this photo inside DD on an otherwise, cold, windy day? Maybe is doubled as a ‘rain-hat’?
Wellll; the ‘whatever’ scarf; IS around her neck and matches her outfit. Looks like a respectable fashion statement - unless, I need to find my glasses and take another look?
Good one.
As for the LW Jews; sporting such; what a sad rebellious tribute to the enemy who wishes them all'dead'/gone/extinct.
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