Hamas supporters on campuses show signs of fanaticism, even though the academic year has just begun. The students are brutalized and threatened for the sake of “liberating Palestine”.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a report on Saturday stating that Jarrett Buba, who is 52 and not likely to be a student at a university, “attacked”, two Jewish University of Pittsburgh Students as they walked near the Cathedral of Learning on campus. Buba attacked the two students around 6 p.m. from across Forbes Avenue. The attack was gratuitous and bloody. “One student had cuts on his face and the other was bleeding from cuts on his neck.”
Buba’s victims all wore yarmulkes. Buba wore the keffiyeh, the checkered scarf associated with the Palestinian Arab Jihad. He felt justified in attacking Jewish students.
The keffiyeh does not belong to the Palestinian people. The keffiyeh is not “Palestinian” at all. Not only Arabs and Palestinians wear it. It is also worn by Kurds, Yazidis, and other non-political groups. The keffiyeh is today what the broken cross of National Socialism was in the 1930s and 1940s.
The close association of the keffiyeh with this genocidal cause began about ninety years ago. Initially, some Jews who moved to British Mandatory Palestine donned the keffiyeh, as they saw doing so as part of trying to fit in with their neighbors. However, during the 1936-9 Arab Revolt against British rule, Arab commanders ordered Arab men to wear the keffiyeh as a symbol of their “resistance.”
Harold MacMichael, British Foreign Office spokesperson, said: “This order was obeyed with an astoundingly docile attitude and it is not exaggerated that eight out of 10 tarbushes were replaced in the nation in a month.” Keffiyeh-wearing jihadis murdered around 500 Jews, and Jews in the area stopped wearing the keffiyeh because they were targeted by the people who were wearing it.
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, who played a major role in the creation of Palestine in the 1960s, used a black-and-white keffiyeh with a fishnet pattern as his trademark. It was a symbol of “solidarity” with the new and yet seemingly indigenous Palestinian people. The keffiyeh has remained a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinians, even today.
Jarrett Buba, a leftist, is also mentioned in the news, but the details are scarce.
It’s telling that the symbol of this fabricated nationality is a headdress borrowed from another culture, one that Palestinian Arabs themselves largely didn’t adopt until less than a century ago. Yet today, the association is undeniable. Wearing a keffiyeh now signifies an endorsement of Jew hatred, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The keffiyeh has become this century’s equivalent of the National Socialist symbol. What Jarrett Buba did at the University of Pittsburgh is a disturbing resurgence of National Socialist-style violence against Jews, targeted simply for being Jewish. In today’s political and social climate, it’s unlikely this will be an isolated incident.
