DeadDJ
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for the most part, wearing a kaffeya puts you in the campe that supports terror - you have to decide if you are comfortable with that.
That's correct in the same way that wearing a Star of David means you support the brutal oppression of a populace. I'd like to address this without getting too far off the stylin' track, but your statement is pretty ridiculously far off.
1) It's a huge stretch to assume that because one part of the populace wears something the rest of the populace supports their reasons for wearing it - though I'm aware of PLO assertions and the current Palestinian government. It is especially true when a militant faction claims a basic form of clothing. Judaism is inseparable from Israel, and the Star is a common symbol. By your reasoning, all of Israel and anyone in the US wearing one supports all actions taken by the Israeli government. This is clearly false as it has a history and a meaning preceding/divorced from Israel.
2) This demonstrates a failure/success point of terrorism: it got the attention the terrorists wanted and tangentially created a symbol of hate out of a simple piece of clothing. The color-coded kaffiyeh is not universally accepted to mean political things, but its terrorist use has made it seem that way. Again, it can and is worn harmlessly.
3) To address the main part of your question, you assume quite wrongly that by wearing a kaffiyeh my friend supports terrorism and that all political positions in Palestine must inherently claim terrorism. What she fights is the oppression of the entire Palestinian populace. I will not attempt to make a straw man out of this tangled mess, but to cut it short Israel has blood on its hands too. A quick study of Israeli actions will show repeated UN Human Rights Violations and human rights violations that almost all Americans would abhor. Her reasons for wearing a kaffiyeh are likely complex and I will not attempt to claim for her. However, she and many who support Palestine do NOT support terrorism.