Today is keffiyeh day in Palestinian schools

Today, in honor of yesterday's anniversary of "Palestine's independence" declared in 1988 in Algeria, schoolchildren in the territories are being encouraged by the Education Ministry to wear the symbol of Palestinian resistance, the keffiyeh.

This photo was taken at a school in Bethlehem where boys who bothered to bring their keffiyehs to school raised them in the air. It looks like no more than 15% of the boys actually brought in their keffiyehs, forcing the photographer to pose them with 2-3 boys per scarf.

The press release from the Education Ministry emphasizes that the keffiyeh symbolizes "resistance," although they claim that they are referring to studying as a form of resistance.

It is interesting that even education must be demanded through the prism of fighting Israel, as opposed to teaching kids that study is its own reward.

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