National guardsmen often wear the traditional red-checkered keffiyeh Arab headdress. He frequently performed donning the checkered keffiyeh popularly associated with Palestinian nationalism. The male headdress is also known as Keffiyeh. Erwin Rommel also commonly wore a keffiyeh during the Western Desert Campaign for practical reasons. The "keffiyeh" is a white knitted skull cap worn under the Ghutra. European activists have also worn the keffiyeh. Also in Indonesia the people used the keffiyeh to show their solidarity with the Palestinians. The keffiyeh, especially the all-white keffiyeh, is also known as the "ghutrah".