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Vol. CLVII
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

BREAKING: Students Walk Out for Palestine

Bex Heimbrock, News Editor February 19, 2025

February 19, 2025 -- Whitman Students for Justice in Palestine are leading a 'teach-in' at Maxey Auditorium, following a mid-morning walk-out. 12:35PM: As protesters gathered in Maxey Auditorium, Dean...

Israel Attacks Iran: Children with Weapons

Baran Abbasi, News Reporter October 31, 2024

The idea of Israel and Iran striking each other directly was unimaginable a year ago. The two nations have been engaged in a shadow war for years, with Iran funding proxy strikes against Israel by Hamas,...

Genocide or conflict? Israel vs. Ukraine

Isabel Mathy, Campus Life Reporter September 29, 2022

Israel violates nearly every single one of the 149 articles of the Geneva Convention in its actions against Palestine and falls into most definitions of genocide. Still, the United States has doubled down...

The beginning of passover break

Serena Runyan April 6, 2014

This is another post written on a bus. This time we're heading home from a school trip titled "yam le yam" or "sea to sea". The idea is to hike from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, but in reality...

Holy

Serena Runyan March 20, 2014

Jerusalem is a holy city. A bridge between the material and the spiritual. Many would say between the earth and the heavens. But what is holy?: "Connected to a god or a religion/ religious and morally...

Backtracking: Ten Days with Birthright

Serena Runyan February 6, 2014

As I mentioned earlier,  my Birthright trip was a medium through which I stopped feeling like a tourist here and started to be able to envision myself being a living part of Israel. As things become...

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