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 https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-starving-gaza-6-sept/ Support for Chilean Network protesting and event in Santiago Source: Palestine-Global Mental Health Network Date: August 2025 The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network has coordinated a letter in support of the Chilean network, protesting against an invitation to the US/Israeli academic Tal Ben-Shahar to an event in Santiago. The UK Network has signed this letter of support. The full text of the letter is available here: https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/letter-to-the-organizers-of-the-san-carlos-de-apoquindo-event-centre/ The International Community Must Act Now in Gaza and the West Bank Source: PsychoActive (statement) Date: August 2025 PsychoActive is “a group of practicing and academic mental health professionals who have set themselves the goal of being active in areas of social-political concern, especially the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The group developed out of the members’ need to expand therapeutic discourse and practice to include the social and political contexts.” https://psychoactive.wixsite.com/website PsychoActive has recently issued a statement “The International Community Must Act Now in Gaza and the West Bank“ that is signed by 31 mental health professionals and which concludes: “[…] As witnesses to these ongoing atrocities, the international community bears responsibility not just to observe but to act. History will judge not only those who committed these acts but also those who had the power to stop them and chose silence. We have seen how governmental mechanisms of dehumanisation make ordinary citizens complicit in extraordinary crimes. The international community has tools to break this cycle – economic leverage, legal mechanisms, and diplomatic pressure that can create accountability where domestic systems have failed. This is not a time for symbolic gestures or cautious diplomacy. It is a time for the moral clarity and courageous action that protecting human life demands. The question is not whether the international community can act, but whether it will choose to do so before it is too late. The children of Israel, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank – Palestinian and Israeli alike – deserve a future free from trauma and violence. That future requires international intervention today.” https://psychoactive.wixsite.com/website/the-international-community-must-act-now We Are Still Here: An anthology of resilience, grief, and unshattered hope from Gaza’s university students (a new book) Source: Dajarapress Date: August 2025 (publication date) We Are Still Here is an anthology of the voices of students from Gaza – raw, unfiltered, and courageous. It features short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza’s universities. These are not retrospective reflections or distant analyses; they are real-time words, emerging from the depths of genocide, displacement, and grief. These writings may be their last hopes to reach the world, a final act of resistance through expression. https://darajapress.com/publication/we-are-still-here/  Please note the deadline of Friday 29 August ACTIONS WANT TO TAKE ACTION? So far in August, we have posted 14 actions on our dedicated Actions Page: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ If you know of any future, relevant actions that can be added to the page then please let us know at: ukpalmhn@gmail.com FEATURED ACTION Stop arming Israel (crowd sourcing appeal) Source: Global Legal Action Network Date: August 2025 GLAN and Palestinian human rights organisation, Al-Haq, are challenging the export of weapons to Israel for use in Gaza. […] We urgently need to build a groundswell of support to get this case over the line in this final push. We must send a clear message to government: complicity in war crimes and other atrocity crimes including genocide, is unlawful. […] This case is about ensuring that Britain complies with its own policies on the export of weapons and does not contribute to war crimes or breaches of International Humanitarian Law. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-arming-israel EVENTS WANT TO NETWORK, LEARN AND SHOW SOLIDARITY? As of 27 August there are 21 upcoming, curated events listed on our dedicated events page: https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ If you know of any future, relevant events that can be added to the page then please let us know at: ukpalmhn@gmail.com FEATURED EVENT The Biosphere of Genocide (webinar) with Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah Chair of Conflict Medicine at the Global Health Institute of the American University of Beirut Source: British Palestine Program Date: Monday 8 September at 3 pm UK time https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aD9Rg6XeTGmQiyTMXeLiEg#/registration BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS (BDS)A founding aim 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).” United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds Source: Mondoweiss Date: 18 August The United Methodist Church (UMC) will divest from Israel bonds and from other governments maintaining illegal military occupations, making it the first church in the world to make such a pledge. [Wikipedia describes The United Methodist Church (UMC) as a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.] https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/united-methodist-church-divests-from-israel-bonds/ |
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 