Palestinian national symbol outsourced to China
JAMAL ARURI/AFP/Getty Images What’s one of the latest products to be outsourced to China? The kaffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered scarf popularized as a symbol of Palestinian identity and unity by late leader Yasir Arafat. In the last eight years, two thirds of Hebron’s textile factories have shut down, in part due to cheap imports from ...
JAMAL ARURI/AFP/Getty Images
What’s one of the latest products to be outsourced to China? The kaffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered scarf popularized as a symbol of Palestinian identity and unity by late leader Yasir Arafat. In the last eight years, two thirds of Hebron’s textile factories have shut down, in part due to cheap imports from the Middle Kingdom. Even Arafat’s Fatah party now gets some of its kaffiyehs from China.
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