Summary
US solidarity tourist interviewed in Chapter 2 of Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine on the benefit and shame of US citizenship at Checkpoint 300 and in Hebron (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.96-97).
Details
- On being waved through Checkpoint 300 while Palestinians were pulled aside and interrogated: “I would just get a smile and get passed right on by because of my passport” (PDF p.97).
- She was shocked more by the mobility and access she embodied than by the discrimination she witnessed, and described guilt that her “hard-earned money”, her tax dollars, was “going to make life a living hell” for Palestinians (PDF p.97).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Maggie Goff, Sarah Alzanoon, Checkpoint 300, Hebron