Summary
Presbyterian youth minister in Louisville, Kentucky, from a rural Indiana farming family, whose tailored report-backs Kelly reads for how whiteness renders a tourist a verifiable source on Palestine (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.235-237). Named in the Acknowledgments (PDF p.10-11).
Details
- For rural Indiana audiences she draws on the Olive Tree Campaign: planting in Jab’a, watching Palestinian kids play on tractors — “I knew they were fine because that’s what my childhood looked like” (PDF p.236).
- “Me—a white girl they know and trust—is talking to them about people they’ve been told are terrorists and deserve everything that is happening to them” (PDF p.236).
- For her wealthy, white, Republican Louisville church she relies on Bible examples, against Indiana’s “Fox News mentality” (PDF p.237).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Olive Tree Campaign, Report-Back, Colonial Calculus of Veracity