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| EVENTS Cafe Palestine 38 – Honouring the work of our colleagues in Gaza, part two Saturday 24 February from 16:00-18:00 (UK) / 18:00-20:00 (Pal) Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89486111693?pwd=L3hkZGhpVkFDVi85TmFwN0NuZm5uZz09 or Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/UKPMHN/live_videos/ This second event will feature more of the work of some of the mental health teams that work in Gaza and highlight their professionalism, dedication and creativity. Since most colleagues in Gaza are cut off from electronic communication and have to focus on their own and their families’ survival, we wish to represent and honour them through our voices from outside. Presenters include: – Dr Alice Rothchild, who will provide an overview – Dr Peter Jakob and Dr Michaela Fried from Bridges for Hope and Peace, – David Denborough from the Dulwich centre, Adelaide, Australia will describe collaboration with colleagues in Gaza – Guy Shennan will present a recording of messages from Social Workers in Gaza Alice Rothchild, author, filmmaker, and physician, is focused on human rights and social justice. She writes and lectures widely, authored several books on health and human rights in Israel/Palestine, including Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine, contributed to a number of anthologies, the most recent being Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation and What Jerusalem Means to Us: Jewish Reflections and Perspectives. Finding Melody Sullivan, is her young adult novel exploring grief and friendship in the setting of broader political questions raised by realities in Israel/Palestine, available in print and audio. Old Enough to Know, her middle grade novel, is about a nine-year-old Palestinian American boy and his grandmother from the Aida Refugee Camp. For more info: https://www.alicerothchildbooks.com/ She directed a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide. She is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, the mentor liaison for We Are Not Numbers, a program for young Gaza writers, and on the board of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation. She was last in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in August 2023. https://alicerothchild.com/ Peter Jakob, PhD is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with a background in social work, Peter has worked as a clinical psychologist and family therapist in both child- and adolescent mental health services and in adult mental health for over 40 years, specialising in working with people who have experienced abuse and with children and families involved with child protective services. Peter’s concern is for understanding the contexts in which peoples’ difficulties emerge and working towards social justice as a key underpinning of psychotherapy. He has introduced Non Violent Resistance (NVR) to the UK and has adapted the approach for families that face multiple challenges and for adopted children and young people in foster- or residential care.. Peter is a prolific national and international presenter. Michaela Fried is a child- and adolescent psychiatrist, specializing in NVR case management for acute and complex crisis, as well as trauma therapy. She has been involved in social projects in Europe and abroad, including voluntary humanitarian work with terminally ill people (UK), war refugees (former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, South Sudan, Gaza ) in mission with several NGOs. She is a graduate of the University of Vienna, and has completed her Post-doctoral fellowship at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Her medical areas of expertise are child psychiatry and paediatrics. David Denborough works as a community worker, teacher and writer/editor for the Dulwich Centre, Adelaide, Australia. He is particularly interested in cross cultural partnerships which limit the chances of psychological colonization and create possibilities for cross-cultural inventions, such as the Team of Life Narrative Approach and Tree of Life (with Ncazelo Ncube- Mlilo). David is also vitally interested in how collective narrative practices can spark and/or sustain social movements and in projects that respond to racism and seek to strengthen social cohesion/inclusion. He has been involved with several projects in Palestine, including The Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture, Ramallah and in Jabaliya, Gaza Guy Shennan is a Social Worker and Solution Focussed Therapist. He is on the Steering Group of the UK Palestine Mental Health Network He is a Founder member of Social Workers for a Free Palestine. The previous Cafe Palestine Zoom meeting was full with a maximum of 100 participants. In light of this, the Cafe Palestine on 24 February will be available both on Zoom and as a Facebook Live stream (addresses above). UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour Monday 26 February at 13:00 (UK) These informal events provide an opportunity to talk, swap ideas and take actions together. Please contact 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/ 1. UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls From the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights UN experts xpressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against 2. Social workers send letters from Gaza Organised by Social Workers for a Free Palestine @SW4PalestineUK / sw4palestineuk@gmail.com Social workers from the UK read out messages from social workers in Gaza that were sent by email at the end of 2023. The social workers wanted their messages to be heard by social workers and others around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rC13VnVB3g 3. Be ready to imagine a new world by Professor Ilan Pappé The renowned historian of Israeli settler colonialism projects into a possible future beyond the current genocide of Palestinians and foresees the demise of the “Jewish state”. In a contribution to the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s annual Genocide Memorial Day in London on January 21, now published on their website, Pappe argues that Israel’s habitual pretext of defence and retaliation can no longer serve as cover for pursuing its racist and eliminatory policies towards the Palestinians. https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/be-ready-to-imagine-a-new-world [The article was originally published by the Islamic Human Rights Commission website on Thu 1 Feb 2024 at this address: https://www.ihrc.org.uk/it-is-dark-before-the-dawn-but-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end For an unknown reason, there were some problems connecting to this site at the time of writing.] 4. Learn more about the Israeli Apartheid Week at this link https://bdsmovement.net/iaw#People%20Against%20Apartheid! 5. Israel systematically uses quadcopters to kill Palestinians from a close distance As part of its genocide against the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing since 7 October 2023, the Israeli army has been using small drones (or quadcopters) to fire directly at Palestinians, killing and injuring many of them, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented. Israel’s army has increased its use of electronic-controlled quadcopters—which were previously restricted to use for intelligence purposes—for killing and injuring Palestinians. The Israeli army has escalated its premeditated murders, extrajudicial executions, and judicial killings against Palestinian civilians through direct targeting with snipers and drones in various regions of the Gaza Strip, in addition to aerial and artillery bombardment of residential areas, Euro-Med Monitor said. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6166 6. Palestinian ambassador to UK says eight relatives killed in Israeli strikes in Rafah Although the war retains strong public support in Israel, a small but vocal group of anti-war protesters gathered in Jerusalem’s Paris Square on Friday. They held up signs saying “stop the genocide” and “Palestinian lives still matter” as they chanted “From the river to the sea, freedom and equality”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/palestinian-ambassador-to-uk-says-eight-relatives-killed-in-israeli-strikes-in-rafah 7. Palestinian film Lyd plus Q&A showing in London Monday 26 Feb at the Prince Charles Theatre near Leicester Square, London at 18:00 Promoted by The Galilee Foundation Link to the film on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12683280/ Tickets are now on sale for the London screening of Palestinian film Lyd- The story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world. What it is now and what it could have become. https://galileefoundation.beaconforms.com/form/d68ef033 8. Messages from Gaza Now Wednesday 28 February at 19:00 – 21:00 P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD, UK At this event Az Theatre will present more readings of Hossam Madhoun’s MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW, accounts from recent days in the Gaza Strip. Alongside this we are holding an open conversation with the Architects for Gaza/Palestine Regeneration Team group (participation and speaker to be confirmed). Az Theatre is making an appeal to ‘skill and knowledge’ communities to join an ongoing process of support and communication with people in Gaza as they face rebuilding their lives, their landscape and their environment in the coming months and years. https://p21.gallery/news/158 |
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