Bramley, Ellie Violet (9 August 2019). "The keffiyeh: symbol of Palestinian struggle falls victim to fashion". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. British Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour, for example, has insisted the keffiyeh's symbolic attachment to Palestinian identity must be recognised and remembered and has made references to the scarf in her work. She released her first single Al-Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh, meaning The Keffiyeh is Arab, in 2010 as an ode to the garment and to her identity. Some teachers from other schools who spoke to MEE also confirmed that students were placed in detention for putting up posters in support of Palestine. In these places, kaffiyehs remained popular. In Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which are still controlled by Bedouins (albeit of different clans), kaffiyehs remain the standard to this day. In Arabia for example, a shemagh (as they call their kaffiyehs) is mandatory when visiting government offices and when attending formal events.

Jay said the school had refused to take down the Israeli flag displayed in the library after seeing the Palestine flag taken down. While all the ensuing controversy helped to increase the popularity of the scarf, it sounded the death knell for the factories in Hebron, which couldn’t compete with a flood of cheap copies. Having saturated the market, the foreign copies even reached Jerusalem, only 28 kilometres away. The ownership and cultures of clubs are very significant, and so we are getting these very different approaches." Shereen Fernandez, a lecturer at Queen Mary University in London who specialises in Prevent in schools, believes the school reaction to Palestine protests is a direct result of the Prevent strategy telling teachers that campaigning for Palestine is associated with extremism. After coming out in support of Israel, boxing great Floyd Mayweather external-link has also received similar treatment, and then there are several current footballers who have received disciplinary action from their clubs for their posts.Like Jay, Sam from West London put up posters in his school for Palestine on their class boards and wore badges to raise awareness about Palestine. Thompson, Angus (16 October 2023). "Lidia Thorpe dons keffiyeh in Senate to speak on Palestine". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 2 November 2023. Swedenburg, Ted (1995). Memories of Revolt: The 1936–1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. University of Minnesota Press. p.35. ISBN 978-1-557-28763-2. A fishnet is an image of collectivism, of entanglement and dependence: in a net, singular strands become something larger, stronger. As one strand, I am always yearning to be knotted together with others, so that we are better able to hold, to catch."

But come the 1930s, it was these traditionalist Palestinians from the countryside who revolted against the British, and their kaffiyeh became a shibboleth distinguishing nationalist Palestinians from hatless pragmatists, who did not support violent conflict with the British Empire. Salah is an example of someone who was under severe pressure to take sides because of his nationality," Ian Bayley, now a senior lecturer in sports journalism at Staffordshire University, told BBC Sport Africa.Mayfield School had not responded to MEE's requests for comment by the time of t That commercialisation of the keffiyeh has by no means lessened its cultural value in the eyes of Palestinians.