Let’s be clear: these so-called “tours” are not innocent excursions—they are state-sponsored propaganda missions that normalize apartheid, occupation, and illegal annexation. When Israeli civilians voluntarily cross into land violently seized from Syria, they are not passive bystanders. They are participants in a colonial project, benefiting from stolen land under the protection of military force.

This isn’t tourism. It’s provocation. It’s settler voyeurism. And it should be condemned in the strongest possible terms by anyone who values international law and basic human decency.

When you walk through a war zone laughing, taking selfies, and calling it a hike, you cease to be a neutral party. You become part of the machinery that dispossesses, humiliates, and erases a people. If violence follows, that is not tragic—it is predictable. Actions have consequences, especially when those actions are designed to make occupation seem normal, even pleasant.

Civilized people should see this for what it is: a grotesque mockery of justice and a deep stain on any society that permits or celebrates it.