Editing The Weather Channel (section)

===Keffiyeh ad removal===
On October 9, 2024, the Twitter account for the organization [[StopAntisemitism]] (@StopAntisemites) posted a picture of an advertisement for the Weather Channel featuring a woman wearing a [[Palestinian keffiyeh]] around her neck.<ref name="DD10112024">{{cite news |last1=Huggins |first1=Katherine |title=Weather Channel ad featuring woman in keffiyeh causes absolute meltdown |url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/weather-channel-keffieyh-ad-backlash/ |access-date=October 12, 2024 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=October 11, 2024 |quote=The Weather Channel managed to upset both sides.}}</ref><ref name="CAIR10122024">{{cite news |last1=Hooper |first1=Ibrahim |title=CAIR Calls on The Weather Channel to Apologize for Denigrating Palestinian Culture, Agreeing with Hate Group |url=https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-calls-on-the-weather-channel-to-apologize-for-denigrating-palestinian-culture-agreeing-with-hate-group/ |access-date=October 12, 2024 |work=[[Council on American–Islamic Relations|CAIR]] |date=October 12, 2024}}</ref> According to [[Bill Ackman]], the advertisement (made for the Weather Channel App) was produced by parent company The Weather Company under Francisco Partners.<ref name="DD10112024" /> The @StopAntisemites account falsely stated that the keffiyeh is a [[hate symbol]] associated with [[violence against Jews]] following the [[October 7th attacks]] from a year prior, inciting pro-Israelis to demand that the Weather Channel withdraw the ad.<ref name="DD10112024" /> In actuality, keffiyehs are a traditional Middle Eastern clothing for sun protection (the [[Sudra (headdress)|sudra]] being the Jewish analogue),<ref name="CAIR10122024" /><ref name="Bartlett1973">{{cite book|author=J. R. Bartlett|title=The First and Second Books of the Maccabees|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uj44AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA246|access-date=12 October 2024|date=19 July 1973|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-09749-9|page=246|quote=traditional Jewish head-dress was either something like the Arab's ''Keffiyeh'' (a cotton square folded and wound around a head) or like a turban or stocking cap}}</ref> with a black-and-white pattern being used to represent [[Palestinian nationalism|nationalism]] for the [[State of Palestine]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sottile |first=Zoe |date=2023-11-28 |title=The Palestinian keffiyeh explained: How this scarf became a national symbol |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/28/style/style-palestinian-keffiyeh-explained/index.html |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=[[CNN]] |language=en}}</ref>.

The @TheWeatherChannel account responded to @StopAntisemites, apologizing for any offense they caused, stating that they do not condone anti-Semitism in any form and that they were withdrawing the ad.<ref name="DD10112024" /><ref name="CAIR10122024" /> The Weather Channel's response earned backlash from pro-Palestinians, who cited the true meaning of the keffiyeh and accused the Weather Channel of caving to [[Islamophobic]] and [[anti-Palestinian]] propaganda.<ref name="DD10112024" /><ref name="CAIR10122024" /> The [[Council on American-Islamic Relations]] (CAIR) condemned The Weather Channel for agreeing with the "right-wing extremist" StopAntisemitism (alleging the organization and its founder of having a history of pushing [[new anti-Semitism]], [[Anti-African sentiment]], and [[self-hating Jew]] rhetoric)<ref name="CAIR10122024" /> and regarding keffiyehs as a hate symbol, for which CAIR demanded an apology, stating: "The Weather Channel must apologize for bowing to the racist demands of an anti-Palestinian hate group and seeming to agree with their mustache position that any expression of Palestinian heritage is by definition 'antisemitic.' The keffiyeh is traditional Palestinian attire and has nothing to do with antisemitism. It is because of hate speech like this that [[Anti-Palestinianism during the Gaza war|Palestinian Americans have literally been stabbed and shot for wearing the keffiyeh over the past year]]. It must stop. The Weather Channel must apologize."<ref name="CAIR10122024" />

Covering the controversy, the conservative [[Jewish News Syndicate]] sided with StopAntisemitism's stance, saying "the distinctive black-and-white keffiyeh has long been associated with the Palestinian war of annihilation against the Jewish state."<ref>{{cite news |author1=<!--not stated--> |title='Weather Channel' apologizes, retracts keffiyeh ad campaign |url=https://www.jns.org/weather-channel-apologies-retracts-keffiyeh-ad-campaign/ |access-date=Oct 18, 2024 |work=[[Jewish News Syndicate]] |date=Oct 13, 2024 |quote=The Weather Channel, a U.S. pay television content provider, apologized on Thursday for an ad campaign that featured a woman wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh, a symbol often associated with terrorism against Israel and Jews worldwide.}}</ref>