Power of Perspectives | GW Today

By Nick Erickson

During a lunch break in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, George Washington University first-year student Dov Factor thanked the worker who handed him a shawarma. Except Factor expressed his gratefulness in Hebrew, signifying his Jewish heritage on what recent history might suggest as the wrong side of the border to do so.

Factor, one of five Jewish students out of the 25 who attended GW Hillel’s Building Bridges trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories over spring break, became uneasy after a co . . .