With the Legislative Assembly of Ontario’s keffiyeh ban now into its second week, opponents of the measure are doubling down on making the garment their latest cause célèbre — even as keffiyehs remain a fixture of the increasingly chaotic anti-Israel demonstrations plaguing our streets.

And while keffiyeh defenders like Opposition Leader Marit Stiles — and, for that matter, Premier Doug Ford — continue to insist that it is a “culturally significant” item of dress for many in the province’s Arab community, they seem wilfully blind to its unshakeable association with Palestinian political violence.