Schneider, Emily Maureen

Tourism is an expanding battleground of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since the founding of the state, Israel's supporters have used tourism as a mechanism to socialize diaspora Jews and other travelers into supporting Israeli institutions, namely the military. As a counterf…

The deployment of tourism to strengthen diaspora ties is well documented, however sociologists have yet to examine the use of tourism to complicate transnational diaspora allegiances. Jewish tourism to the Palestinian Territories offers a compelling case to study this growing tr…