keffiyeh

One site whose front page was replaced with an image of a man wearing a Palestinian kaffiye, displayed a message reading: "This attack is in response to the Injustice against the Palestinian people."

The people whom I would request to open their poor bundles--very politely, to be sure, with an apologetic smile, especially when it was a woman bringing her basket of green and purple figs to offer to passersby on a corner of King George or on the pedestrian mall of Ben Yehudah, sitting cross-legged, patiently, on the sidewalk, or a man wearing a kaffiye, his lined gray-stubbled face bespeaking grandfatherly status, like the one who mopped the corridors of the building that houses my laboratory--those people would look through me, past me, and if their eyes for a moment held mine it was with profound disdain, often with a flicker of hatred.