Before college, Fouad Abu-Hijleh, 25, did not know of a world where it was wrong to support Palestinians.
Abu-Hijleh is the descendant of refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when after Israel was created roughly 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes by armed Jewish groups in what Palestinians have since calledBut at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Abu-Hijleh found his name on an anonymously run site dedicated to blacklisting those it believes to be anti-Israel or antisemitic after he said he was quoted in a news article despite requesting his name not be...
The website posted photos of Abu-Hijleh he hadn’t uploaded to the internet himself, his career history, and even the name he goes by on Facebook. His page kept updating as if someone was tracking his every move. It continues to be one of the first pages that pops up when you Google his name. “They even posted an hour-long protest that I went to, and I don’t go to protests very often. But the one time that I did last year, they managed to find me and they went to the exact timestamp that I was at,” Ghrama said.“We coexist with one another,” she said. “This is strictly a humanitarian issue that I feel like is my responsibility to speak on.”
Despite the reality of harassment for Palestinian Americans, the student said, the current sense of hysteria on the Harvard campus is unprecedented. After the letter condemning Israel was made public, for example,and several other business leaders demanded Harvard University release the names of student signatories so they would know not to hire them.
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