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Filed under Fashion, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

11 Responses to “Delia’s offers keffiyehs as “Peace” scarves”

1. They might be more appropriately called “justice scarves.”

   
   —Bill · July 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

2. But the guy with the AK-47 isn’t wearing a peace scarf. Looks more like a kicky peace headband. I dunno. This whole thing is silly. I just bought a really REALLY nice keffiyah at the shuk yesterday. I think maybe I am going to dye it blue and wear it as an ironic statement. Truth is those things are awesome. They keep the sun off your head in the summer and are hands down the best winter scarves ever. My friends in various armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan wear them to protect against sunburn and excessive dust in the desert. But peace scarves? WTF?? They are just plain old scarves…

   
   —ck · July 17th, 2007 at 5:51 am

3. That’s more like an Arab-themed Karate Kid headband.

   
   —themicah · July 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am

4. That scarf they are selling bears no resemblance to a Keffiyeh, in my opinion

   
   —John Brown · July 17th, 2007 at 10:17 am

5. look closer … same exact pattern as this dude’s

   
   —Mobius · July 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm

6. a comprehensive look:

   http://kabobfest.blogspot.com/.....html#links

   
   —xisntox · July 17th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

7. The funny thing is, at a peace-themed event a few weeks ago, these things (in all colours) were actually being sold at one stall as ‘P.L.O’s’. Sadly, my photo didn’t come out.

   
   —Nella · July 18th, 2007 at 8:58 am

8. I complained to the Delias about the name and received this reply:

   Dear dELiA*s Customer,

   Thank you for your e-mail and concern regarding the scarf featured. We
   apologize that this item has offended anyone; this was not our
   intention. Please be assured that our company did not intend to imply
   any support for terrorism.

   The name given to this item was originally suggested by our vendor and
   will be changed online immediately and in future catalogs. We continue
   to carefully reviewing each concern we receive.

   Thank you,
   dELiA*s Customer Service

   And now the name of the scarf is “euro scarf” - but you can still search for it on the website as “peace scarf.”

   
   —Rachel · July 18th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

9. I wrote to Delia’s:

   Subject: prod_inq
   First Name: Ben
   Last Name: Kurtzer

   Message:
   You product “peace scarf” is an attempt to present a terrorist icon as fashion chic. The girls you’re marketing to have no idea that many girls their age have been murdered by terrorists wearing this so-called “peace scarf”. I implore you to remove this product from your store and to apologize to the many victims of terror and their families for your insensitivity.

   Their reply:

   Dear dELiA*s Customer,

   Thank you for your e-mail and concern regarding the scarf featured. We apologize that this item has offended anyone; this was not our intention. Please be assured that our company did not intend to imply any support for terrorism.

   The name given to this item was originally suggested by our vendor and will be changed online immediately and in future catalogs. We continue to carefully reviewing each concern we receive.

   Thank you,
   dELiA*s Customer Service

   They’ve changed the name to “Euro Scarf”:

   http://store.delias.com/item.d.....emID=48095

   
   —Ben Kurtzer · July 18th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

10. [...] between a burka and a bikini. And Jew School mocks the Delia’s catalog’s offering of keffiyehs as “peace scarves” but hello, Delia’s, Urban Outiftters already played that game (scroll down to the end of the [...]

    
    —Jewess » Blog Roundup: The Erev Tisha B’Av Edition · July 23rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm

11. just for the record… that’s not a machine gun.

    
    —lauren · May 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm

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