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| 1. Under the Gun in Palestine Thursday 18 January at 20:00 2. Day of Action for Palestine Saturday 20 January 3. UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour Fri 26 Jan at 13:00 4. Cafe Palestine 37 on Sat 27 Jan 16:00-18:00 5. Don’t Go to the Recalculating Conference 6. Gaza Genocide unmasked by Irish lawyer’s historic speech at the ICJ 7. War on Gaza: Complaint filed alleging UK ministers’ complicity in Israeli war crimes 8. We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS 9. Pro-Palestine voices blast lack of Western media coverage of ICJ Gaza case 10. Birthdays under bombardment 11. Solidarity is key to surviving in Gaza 12. Lama Khouri speaking at a rally in New York plus Stars reading South Africa’s submission to the ICJ 1. Under the Gun in Palestine: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Resistance Thursday 18 January at 20:00 (UK time) Presented by Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh from the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University. Further information and registration (scroll down to find the event): https://wirn.worldbeyondwar.org/webinars/ 2. Day of Action for Palestine Saturday 20 January organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign There will be local actions at more than 35 locations across the UK this weekend. https://palestinecampaign.org/events/day-of-action-for-palestine-20-january/ 3. UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour The next Action Half-Hour will be on Friday 26 January at 13:00 There is an up to date list of actions, that anyone can take up at any time on this web page: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Please do check out the page this week independently for new actions responding to the ICJ case and further petitions to sign. We look forward to meeting again as a group on the 26th. 4. Cafe Palestine37 – Honouring the work of our colleagues in Gaza Saturday 27 January 16:00 – 18:00 (Please note the second Cafe Palestine, previously scheduled for 3 February, has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly) This event will feature the work of some of the mental health teams working in Gaza, their professionalism, dedication and creativity and their ongoing activities, despite the catastrophic conditions inflicted upon them. Since most colleagues in Gaza are cut off from electronic communication and have to focus on their own and their families’ survival, we need to represent and honour them in whatever ways we can, mainly through our voices from outside. Dr Samah Jabr, Head of the Mental Health Unit, Palestine Ministry of Health will speak about the mental health implications of the ongoing assault on the people of Gaza, their homes and their vital infrastructure. David Harrold and Mohamed Altawil will speak about the work of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza www.palestinetraumacentre.uk Nick Bilborough from the Hands Up Project will speak about their educational, creative writing and drama work with young people in Gaza www.handsupproject.org Mohammed Kamal will talk about the work of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme In this Cafe we particularly welcome attendance from colleagues engaged in different mental health projects in Gaza and will aim to include them in future presentations. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87273844374?pwd=THpQSFBVWVNFYitmT3hDS29xUWR4QT09 5 Don’t Go to the Recalculating Conference The UK, USA, Global, French and Irish -Palestine Mental Health Networks issued an open letter condemning the professional conference Recalculating: Authority, Identity, & Belonging in Times of Tectonic Upheaval to be held in Israel on February 10-23, 2024 https://ofekgrouprelations.org/en/intgrc2024/ The networks encourage all mental health workers to refuse to attend, publicize, or participate in the conference either in person or virtually. The conference is organised in association with the London-based Tavistock Institute for Human Relations (www.tavinstitute.org/). UKPALMHN has been in correspondence with TIHR urging that they should disassociate themselves from the conference. The original letter and full correspondence is available on this Don’t Go page: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/dont-go-to-the-recalculating-conference/ UKPALMHN encourages individuals who have connections with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations to write individual letters to TIHR protesting that they are associated with organising this conference. Full details about the issue can be found on the Don’t Go page and emails can be sent to this address: e.aram@tavinstitute.org (Please note that the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations is a separate organisation from the Tavistock Clinic). 6. Gaza Genocide unmasked by Irish lawyer’s historic speech at the ICJ from the Owen Jones YouTube channel A moving speech explaining why action is needed now – and the devastating consequences of inaction.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6IYp0BErg The presentation includes this whiteboard in a hospital in northern Gaza written by an MSF doctor. The doctor and two colleagues were killed in an Israeli strike on the hospital.  7. War on Gaza: Complaint filed alleging UK ministers’ complicity in Israeli war crimes Evidence handed to Metropolitan Police war crimes unit also includes details about British nationals fighting in the Israeli army https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-uk-war-crimes-israel-complaint 8. We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS One of the Aims of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network is “To encourage our colleagues individually and collectively to consider their response to the Palestinian call for boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS)”. In this powerful, long-read, Naomi Klein explains why she supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/only-outside-pressure-can-stop-israels-war-crimes 9. Pro-Palestine voices blast lack of Western media coverage of ICJ Gaza genocide case against Israel On 11 January, the BBC live-streamed the Post Office Enquiry but did not live-stream the South African submission to the ICJ about alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. On 12 January, the BBC live-streamed the Israeli response to the submission in full, despite the fact that the Post Office Enquiry was still ongoing. https://www.newarab.com/news/poor-western-media-coverage-icj-gaza-case-blasted-online https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1745874540155044332 There is further information about this on the UKPALMHN website: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ There is a Change.org petition asking who made the decision to show only the Israeli defence of the allegations and not the allegations themselves, what informed the decision, what considerations were taken into account when making the decision and what, if any, political direction or advice was received by the BBC which may have influenced the decision. There is also information about how to make a complaint with the BBC. 10. Birthdays under bombardment “Instead of singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ the party was disrupted by intense bombings,” Muhammad said. “We waited for minutes, hoping the bombings would end. The sound only became louder. It was nerve-racking.” Yet despite this, the children were intent on having fun. Over the sound of the missile strikes, they just sang louder, Muhammad said. https://electronicintifada.net/content/birthdays-under-bombardment/43946 11. Solidarity is key to surviving in Gaza Podcast with recent information about the lives of families in Gaza. “People are getting together in a sense of community,” Ahmed says. If someone finds a sack of flour, “they bake bread for the whole street.” Or if someone finds some canned goods, they “cook a big stew and distribute it.” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/solidarity-key-surviving-gaza 12. Lama Khouri speaking at a rally in New York Lama is a cross-cultural psychoanalyst. She is co-founder of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and a member of its steering committee. https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/lama-khouri-speaking-at-rally-in-new-york/ Plus Stars reading South Africa’s submission to the ICJ Kudos to the Palestine Festival of Literature for arranging a list of actors reading sections from the South African submission to the ICJ alleging Israeli genocide in Gaza. These include actors from the Game of Thrones and several other well-known names. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcwdep4oM5M The New Arab provides a mini who’s who: https://www.newarab.com/news/got-star-lena-headey-backs-sa-genocide-charges-israel#:~:text=Game%20of%20Thrones%20star%20Lena%20Headey%20was%20among%20dozens%20of,Justice%20(ICJ)%20last%20week |
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