Do you know where she bought this scarf?
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 its 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, dont forget to accessorize with the matching anti-war suicide belt.
(Now available in childrens sizes.)
Considering the fact that Urban Outfitters CEO is a huge financial contributor to both the GOP and Rick Santorums 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. (Im sure some readers are already ramping up their e-mail clients to send nasty letters to URBN.)
Oh, how capitalism trumps all allegiances