Despite the cancellation of the World Keffiyah Day silent protest in Cape Town due to severe weather, the spirit of solidarity for Palestine remains unbroken.

Nelson Mandela donned the keffiyeh at a summit in Algiers in a now-famous picture. Three years after apartheid officially ended in South Africa, he declared, “We know too well that our freedom ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday designated the South African ambassador to the Washington ... Rasool even boasted that he owned a keffiyeh signed by late Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

“Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical exploitation ... makes the case that Palestinians suffer “segregation worse than South Africa’s apartheid regime.” ...

While the inclement Cape Town weather saw the cancellation of the World Keffiyeh Day silent protest in Sea Point at the weekend, that has not doused the fire of the support for Palestine with ...

“The keffiyeh, of course ... and therefore a version of it spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The headdress (also known as a shemagh) features a distinctive black-and-white ...

whose African National Congress was close to the PLO, sometimes sported one. As the Palestinian flag was banned in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza between 1967 and 1993, the keffiyeh grew ...

in protesters demanding an end to Israel's war in Gaza have worn the black-and-white keffiyeh head scarf, a symbol of Palestinian self-determination. Anti apartheid South African leader Nelson ...

Despite South Africa's objection, Israel was granted an extension by the ICJ until 28 January 2026. Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Chairperson, Jaamia Galant, said that World Keffiyeh Day is ...