Cafe Palestine 28
Saturday 2nd October
3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal time)
Asrar Kayyal, Educational Psychologist
Violent crime in a colonial context:
understanding the rise in homicides in the Palestinian community in the lands occupied in 1948
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82858042650?pwd=aHFaS2ovQVJPUnAyd1lNZlVmdnBUZz09
In this newsletter:1. Café Palestine 28 with Asrar Kayyal, Educational Psychologist
2. A Tribute to Riva Joffe 1940-2021
3. PTC report
4. A Life Exposed: Military Invasions of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank
5. “Therapeutic Activism in Contexts of Oppression and Human Rights Abuse”
6. “How to handle a Zionist defamation campaign” by Steven Salaita
1. Café Palestine 28 with Asrar Kayyal, Educational Psychologist
Violent crime in a colonial context: understanding the rise in homicides in the Palestinian community in the lands occupied in 1948
During the past decade, the number of homicides has risen sharply among Palestinians of the lands occupied in 1948. The regime tries to sustain a racialized, colonial explanation in terms of “violent Arabs” – a narrative echoed by the international media. This presentation will offer an alternative approach, utilising critical and community psychological perspectives and locating this phenomenon in its socio-historical and political context.
Particularly, this presentation tries to re-define “crime” by considering the psychological implications of “deprivation”, in general, and of “deprivation of resources and productivity” in particular, for the lived reality of colonized peoples and communities. In addition it explores how the “social control” mechanisms adopted by the colonial state impact on the community psychologically, and suggests that they contribute directly to the increase in violent crime.
Asrar Kayyal is a 32 years old Palestinian woman, an intern educational psychologist and researcher in community psychology. She is mainly interested in researching psychological well-being in colonial contexts, and education and violence among the colonized in particular. Asrar provides educational-psychological services in the East-Jerusalem area via both public and private sectors.
Originally from Al-Birwa displaced Palestinian village, raised in Kufr-Yasif village, (both are located in the Galilee area in the north of the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948), Asrar currently lives in Jerusalem.The meeting will be chaired by Dr Said Shehadeh. Said is a Jaffe-born clinical psychologist now based in New York. Since completing his doctorate at Rutgers University, he has held posts both in the USA and Palestine, including as an assistant professor at the Social and Behavioral Science Department in Birzeit University. Additionally, he served as a clinician at the Birzeit University’s Counseling Center and at the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Ramallah. His clinical and research interests include the indigenization of psychotherapy for Arab populations, as well as the psychopolitics of settler-colonialism in Palestine.
Both Asrar and Said are active members of the Palestine Global Mental Health Network.
The Cafe will open with live music at 3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal time)The discussion will start at 4.00pm (UK) / 6.00pm (Palestine)The whole event is expected to finish at about 5.30pm (UK) / 7.30pm (Palestine)
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2. A Tribute to Riva Joffe 1940-2021
The UKPMHN sends its condolences to the family and friends of Riva Joffe, psychotherapist, socialist, anti-racist and activist in the Palestinian solidarity movement. A woman of courage, compassion and commitment, and a close friend of the UKPMHN (she and her late companion Aziz made their homes available for Network steering group meetings on various occasions). Riva was a founder member of Psychologists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, signed up to Jews for Justice for Palestinians and was latterly active in Jewish Voice for Labour. All her life she campaigned against Apartheid, first in South Africa and then in Palestine. Perhaps the last tribute to the consistency of her anti-racism was the letter she received from the apparatchiks in the Labour Party, telling her she was ‘under investigation’ for her anti-Zionist posts: her reply, reproduced in the link below, displayed her usual wit and clarity of thought. Adieu, Riva….
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/riva-joffe-in-memoriam/
3. Half year report of the “Emergency Psychological Support Project” which is implemented, supervised and funded by Palestine Trauma Centre-UK in partnership with Nour El-Maarefa Association January – July 2021.
4. A Life Exposed: Military Invasions of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank
Read the summary in the British Medical Journal editorial, or read the full Defence of the Children International/Physicians for Human Rights-Israel report here. Another powerful exposé of this practice, with a chapter devoted to the impacts on mental health.
5. “Therapeutic Activism in Contexts of Oppression and Human Rights Abuse” on 11 October 2021 9.30am – 4.30pmHosted by the Institute of Family Therapy, with presenters Charlotte Burck, Gillian Hughes, Gwyn Daniel and Belinda Milani. Again, highly recommended., Although the event is expensive at £95, there are discounts available for group bookings.The flier is below.
6. “How to handle a Zionist defamation campaign” by Steven Salaita
Steven Salaita, anti-colonial scholar, knows what he’s talking about – having his offer of a professorship at Illinois University following accusations of anti-Semitism from the lobby…
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 