Appropriating Struggle: Keffiyahs, Politics, and the Contradictions of the New Zealand Left

In New Zealand, the political embrace of the Palestinian cause has become increasingly pronounced among parties and parliamentarians on the left. Groups such as the Greens and Te Pāti Māori – often the loudest voices of “social justice” and “decolonisation” rhetoric – have taken to amplifying Palestinian slogans, adopting Palestinian flags, and draping themselves in the keffiyah.