Author Archive for Hillary Green

Holding Firm in the Middle

A few days ago, a girl who I knew peripherally through Hillel, a prominent Jewish student organization on campus, friended me on Facebook. Out of curiosity, I took a few minutes to glance through her groups’ pages before replying. She had many of the standard ones that you would expect a third-year economics major to have: “Stop the genocide in Darfur,” “Bring back the old Facebook layout” and the obligatory “Jenny lost her phone and needs your number!” What I didn’t expect to find were groups entitled “The Palestinian identity is a propaganda device” and “Palestine=Jordan.”