(The Center Square) — The Trump administration is investigating claims that New York City schools violated the civil rights of Jewish students by hosting seminars on Palestinian resistance.
HOOD RIVER — Around 15-20 demonstrators braved brisk conditions downtown on Nov. 21 for a conflicting milestone: 100-straight Fridays of sign-wielding, chanting and harmonizing in protest of the ongoing, U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza.
This week's letters to the editor. NOTE: The opinions expressed are “your voice,” and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Columbia Gorge News, its staff, publisher or advertisers.
Gorge Ecumenical Ministries (GEM) invites community members to an event featuring Mira Rizeq, General Secretary (CEO) of the YWCA of Palestine, on Nov. 29 from noon to 1:30 p.m.
To the editor: Dear RaeLynn, I struggled much of the night trying to find a way to be strategic in responding to your comments about Israel and Palestine in Wednesday’s Crosstalk. I’ve not been able to do that. Years ago my American Jewish mentor in West Jerusalem taught me that, on this issue, diplomacy merely delays the inevitable.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Is Israel “the Jewish state”? The answer may seem as obvious as the Star of David on the Israeli flag. Yet the question is starting to complicate the ambitious U.S. effort to ram through a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israel.
Rev. Loren McGrail, a United Church of Christ minister in Chicago, spoke in The Dalles recently about her missionary work in a country that she, unusually, calls Palestine-Israel.
