@Claire_Voltaire has started this hashtag: #NotYourDhimmi.
I want to make a short thread on a story that shows how Jews were degraded and made inferior to Muslims after the conquest of MENA by Islamic conquerors. It’s a story of Keffiyehs.
I want to make a short thread on a story that shows how Jews were degraded and made inferior to Muslims after the conquest of MENA by Islamic conquerors. It’s a story of Keffiyehs.
You will tell me: but wait, Michael, aren’t keffiyehs Arabic garments worn by them as part of their national attire? There is also one named Palestinian keffiyeh and popularized by Yassir Arafat. That is correct. And yet its origin is not that straightforward. 
Why it became official garment of Arab people and through them of all Muslims? Because Hadiths made turban (& keffiyeh as its variation) a crown of Muslims. The Hadiths were written around early/mid 8 century after Muhammad. In coins minted earlier Muslim rulers didn’t wear them.
So let’s get back to Jews. Why they are related to this? Through a garment known as Sudra - a headdress still carefully preserved and worn by Yemeni Jews in spite of 1200 years of prohibition to wear it. We don’t know what it was exactly during Babylonia Talmud, but we can be
sure that it was very similar to turban and resembled keffiyehs. How do we know that? Because Islamic rulers prohibited Jews from wearing it and stilulated that keffiyehs to be worn only by Muslims. Yes. You read it correctly. Jews were simply not allowed to wear it as... Dhimmis
Of course, today keffiyeh is part of rich Islamic culture that for 1.3k+ years developed and evolved and no one should claim that keffiyehs are not Arabic, however Jews will not be Dhimmis again. So when Chaim Weizmann wore it, he had the same very right to wear it as King Faisal
And to top it up with a poem of Shalom Shabazi:
