Ashishish Pasha is really attached to his kafia.

Two-thirds of the year you'll see it around my neck,

except maybe in New York winters where I need something really, really thick

to keep myself warm.

My son even slept in it in his first three or four months of existence

because he could smell

down. Kefias have been in the news a lot lately because they symbolize

Palestinian identity, whether these scarves are worn at protests or just out and about. Pasha is British Indian, his

Kefia was a gift from a Palestinian whom he met in the West Bank and he says he

wears it to show solidarity with all oppressed people, but especially Palestinians.

And he says it usually gets a positive response.

I've had people on the street stop me and ask me about it and we break bread together.

He says he got a much different reaction at a public park in Brooklyn a few weeks ago.

A video he recorded shows a woman throwing a cell phone at him and his 18-month-old son.

Then he says she threw a hot drink.

I'm wearing a scarf and I'm getting attacked because apparently I'm a terrorist.

He reported to police that she made anti-Islamic statements towards him.

Hadassa Bozakaravani is now facing hate crime charges in the case.

She pleaded not guilty, according to court records.

Her lawyer didn't respond to a request for comment.

In Vermont a couple weeks ago, another incident, three students of Palestinian descent were shot by a white man.

One of them was left paralyzed.

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