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E-book Invited to Witness : Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine

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“They called me a tourist, which I found insulting.” So began a reflection by a delegate I interviewed who had gone on solidarity tours to Palestine during the first intifada. She grappled with her discomfort in occupying this term: tourist. She outlined her rationale, explaining that the designation tourism, attached to what she did in Palestine, felt derisive of her work, as though it wasn’t seri-ous and diminished the connections she made, connections seldom possible via tourism writ large. On a delegation during the summer of 2019, as we sat on the porch of the Tamimis’ house, in Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, I navi-gated a similar sentiment. Ahed Tamimi, eighteen years old at the time of our visit, was arrested in December 2017 for famously slapping an Israeli soldier, sentenced to eight months in an Israeli prison, and released in July 2018. The delegates had just heard a lecture by her father, Bassam Tamimi, which out-lined what they, as a family and a people, needed. As Ahed rounded the circle of thirty delegates, perfunctorily shaking each one’s hand, Bassam told the delegates that what Palestinians needed was not tears (“We have enough tear gas,” he wryly joked) but solidarity. After a dinner hosted by the Tamimis, the delegates circled around Ahed, taking incessant pictures and videos for their social media feeds and asking her a series of questions: What was prison like? What were the conditions? What did you do there? What was it like to finish high school in prison? Do you think you got a lighter or harsher sentence because of your notoriety? How has fame changed your life? One tourist tried to break up this line of questioning, posing a question an eighteen-year-old girl might rather answer: What do you do for fun and what kind of music do you like? The delegates ignored this derailing and returned to their question-ing: Was the food in prison edible? What were other people in for? Another interlude: How do you feel about people coming here all the time asking you questions? And another return to the previous line of questioning: Can you drive around to places? Do you pass checkpoints when you go to school? Do you want to stay in Nabi Saleh? Really, for the rest of your life?

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306.4 LYN i

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London : Duke University Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

345 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781478093046

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306.4

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text

Tipe Media

computer

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online resource

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Specific Aspect of Culture

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