Hebron keffiyah looms shut down due to cheaper chinese imports
Oh for fuck sake. Dear ridiculous fashion victims trotting around town in fuchsia colored silk-screen keffiyahs wrapped around your necks as if they were bibs for some sort of trend-follower speghetti feed sponsored by Urban Outiffters: Take off your dumb Che shirts and fake Palestinian scarfs made by children in Chinese sweatshops and read something. Get the real thing. Know where it comes from. — Link

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd’s flock.
