Selective empathy and the weaponisation of trauma

'Nothing prepared me for being accused of causing harm by wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh at a queer displacement conference', writesAisya Zaharin.

FOR MANY OF US, thekeffiyehis a symbol of resistance, a thread in a global fabric of solidarity against Israeli oppression. Yet for some Iranians, that same scarf sparked anguish; they claimed it was the banner of the regimes militias, the Islamic Revo