The Palestinian headdress the keffiyeh is a symbol of resistance across protesters across the world. ... NPR reports that people use it because the fruit's colors, red, black and green, ...

The red and white keffiyeh is also sometimes linked to Jordanian nationalism because British commanders used them as part of the uniform for the Desert Patrol, a Bedouin unit of the Arab Legion.

The keffiyeh became explicitly associated with pro-Palestinian movements when Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, began consistently donning it in public in the 1960s and ...