Jennifer Lynn Kelly’s Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine is a timely and informative look at conditions on the ground in occupied Palestine. Kelly’s work shows how tourists, in particular Western tourists and tourism can counter the ongoing genocide and displacement of Palestinians. Kelly offers several case studies including tours and workshops across occupied Palestine. Tourism is a performative action whereby tourists travel and eventually return home, changed in some way by the process. For Kelly, this transformative potential is what activists in Palestine are seeking to tap into. Tourists are invited to witness, and empowered to return home and work towards Palestinian liberation elsewhere.
Articles by Eric W. Ross
Eric W Ross is a Lecturer in the Globalization Studies program at SUNY Albany.