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| Visit Palestine/Israel on an extended study tour – May 2024 The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network have arranged a number of mental health study tours to Palestine/Israel working with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. The tours are still going ahead and are encouraged by our Palestinian partners. Nonetheless, some participants have withdrawn for understandable reasons. This means that some places have become available on the tour in May that was previously fully booked. The tours offer an amazing programme of appointments that would not be possible to organise if travelling on one’s own. Despite continued unrest, Palestinians are calling for internationals of courage and conviction to be with them to demonstrate their solidarity during this dark time. For more information: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/mental-health-study-tour-may-2024/ To receive an application form, please email us at ukpalmhn@gmail.com Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime Thursday 14 March at 18:00 – 20:00 (UK time) With Joy James, Nadera Shahloub-Kevorkian, Stephen Sheehi, and Abeer Otman Online and Room 313, Third Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS State Crime Journal is sponsoring a launch for its special issue ‘Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime’. The panellists will discuss abolitionist perspectives and practice – perspectives that not only theorise settler colonial governance but offer empirical analyses of a variety of carceral structures, mechanisms, relationships and discourses that are particular to the racial capitalist formations of settler states. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/events/items/abolition-settler-colonialism-and-state-crime-joy-james-nadera-shahloub-kevorkian-stephen-sheehi-and-abeer-otman.html Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine Friday 15 March from 18:00 – 20:00 (UK time) at Freud Museum, London Red Clinic event: Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi in conversation with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian In-person tickets: sold out Online tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychoanalysis-under-occupation-online-tickets-tickets-850177542917 UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour Monday 18 March at 13:00 (UK) These informal events provide an opportunity to talk, swap ideas and take actions together. Please write to ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to the meeting. All of the actions for this event and previous events can be found on: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ A Palestinian Dabke troupe performs inside a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip https://twitter.com/AJArabic/status/1766708060935078103 Israeli human rights groups accuse country of failing to abide by ICJ’s Gaza aid ruling Twelve of Israel’s most prominent human rights organisations have signed an open letter accusing the country of failing to comply with the international court of justice’s (ICJ) provisional ruling that it should facilitate access of humanitarian aid into Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/israeli-human-rights-groups-icj-gaza-aid-ruling On 8 March, a Rabbi urged his IDF students to kill all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including infants, children, women, and the elderly. https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1766231485546111400?s=20 Palestinian prisoners allege brutal treatment in Israel jails A powerful 7-minute video from Channel 4 News. Munther Amira, a renowned non-violent community activist in the West Bank, describes his brutal mistreatment whilst held without charge. He is bravely speaking out in public in support of the other, unknown Palestinian hostages who are still being held without charge. Israel’s response to the October the 7th attack has involved a huge surge in the number of Palestinians being detained – seven-thousand in the West Bank alone, according to authorities there, with an unknown number of Gazans also in custody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1dZhYTWDus&rco=1 BBC News investigation: Israeli troops accused of beating and humiliating Gaza hospital staff An 8-minute BBC news video. A detailed and verified account of breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza that had the UK Foreign Secretary spluttering in Parliament that “we need answers from the Israelis about that”. Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told BBC journalists they were detained, blindfolded, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being tortured by Israeli forces. He said he was held for a week in detention, muzzled dogs were set upon him and his hand was broken by an Israeli soldier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnU3mMMqNm0 The children of Gaza, amongst war and bombing, are children who love life https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3nkKoDM_aX/ Israeli Apartheid Week 2024 Social Media Storm The Social Media Storm started on Tuesday 12 March and lasts for a week using the hashtag #IAW2024 The link below provides comprehensive information about actions to take, plus images and template text that can be used. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oSCBefjJc6MfCcFy_Z4g3MDyKkydwWHUkOcaj_DJ-24/edit Impact of the Israeli military activities on the environment By Mazin Qumsiyeh, a well-known Palestinian scientist and author, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University where he teaches. A paid-for academic article published by Routledge in the International Journal of Environmental Studies. In his popular blog post, Mazin has invited anyone who cannot see the article to write to him directly. Many conflicts in Western Asia over the past 75 years left devastation and refugees and the last war on the Gaza Strip is a good example. Our interests as environmentalists are the effects of conflict (including active conflict, pre-conflict activities, and post-conflict impact). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EKIHYDKHHZNNKHDN73MJ/full?target=10.1080/00207233.2024.2323365 What has Zionism done to Psychoanalysis? Following up on our Report from November last year, ‘The moral bankruptcy of psychoanalysis’ , we have now published a piece entitled ‘What has Zionism done to psychoanalysis’. The mental health professions are built on a commitment to open-minded truth-seeking and still strongly associated with Sigmund Freud who rejected nationalism in all its forms. What’s gone wrong? The original article ‘The moral bankruptcy of psychoanalysis’ appears here: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/ukpmhn-statement-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-psychoanalysis/ The new article, ‘What has Zionism done to psychoanalysis?’ appears here: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/what-has-zionism-done-to-psychoanalysis/ March 2024: The Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) is operating in all parts of Gaza Details about the current, inspiring work of PTC (UK) in Gaza The vicious, genocidal campaign currently being waged against the people of Gaza is being met with resistance of a very special kind. A number of organisations are striving to help traumatised children build and sustain their resilience in response to terror, deprivation and the destruction that surrounds them. PTC(UK) is contributing to this effort in all parts of Gaza. https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/news/march-2024-ptcuk-operating-in-all-parts-of-gaza   Photos from PTC (UK) FINALLY From Norman Finkelstein: Surprise Biden Announcement in State of the Union Address https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1766568042807300114?s=20 ‘The US will supply the Starship Enterprise with 1,000,000 Morton pot pies and Captain Kirk will beam them down. The starship’s phaser banks will be set at medium warm to heat the pot pies on the ground. We consider this the most practical solution to the famine conditions in Gaza.’   |
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 