Why Whitman students should care about Palestine
Rina Cakrani, Columnist
October 31, 2019
As a campus, we focus a lot on certain social justice issues pertaining to race and gender discrimination, but conversations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine barely happen. Although we talk about settler colonialism and occupation in other historical contexts, we rarely connect these issues ...
Bringing the Palestinian-Israeli Conversation to Whitman
Audrey Hecker, Staff Reporter
September 23, 2018
After living through the devastation of the Lebanon War more than a decade ago, Bashar Haidar, a junior at Whitman College, decided it was time to show his support of the Palestinian state and its inhabitants in the founding of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Club. The club is new to the Wh...
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