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| UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 22 September at 1pm (UK time) This is an open space where people exchange their emotional responses with a view to remaining resilient amidst a constant stream of distressing news. Please contact ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting UK-Palestine Mental Health Network statement of support for the Sumud Flotilla Source: Palestine Mental Health Networks Date: September 2025 The Palestine Mental Health Networks is an international coalition of Networks, including the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network. It has issued a strong statement in support of the Sumud Flotilla currently sailing towards Gaza. This international initiative brings together participants from over 40 countries and six continents, delivering vital humanitarian aid and calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza. The statement highlights the ongoing humanitarian crisis, emphasising the deliberate starvation of civilians and calling for urgent international action. The Network urges all nations to ensure the flotilla’s safe passage and stresses that saving lives by breaking the blockade is a moral imperative. Read the full statement here: https://www.pmhn-international.org/new-page-3 Gaza Flotilla participants take great risks in the absence of government action Source: Milena Ansari, Human Rights Watch, writing in Common Dreams Date: 13 September Governments should be using all their leverage to prevent genocide by halting weapons sales to Israel, suspending preferential trade agreements, and imposing targeted sanctions against Israeli officials. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-flotilla-risks From Israeli prisons to UK courts, health workers will not be silenced Source: Middle East Eye Date: 15 September 2025 This opinion piece spotlights the targeting, detention, and silencing of Palestinian health workers in Gaza and the parallel arrests of UK health professionals protesting for Palestinian rights. It argues that medical professionals, bound by ethics and conscience, are facing increasing repression both in war zones and Western democracies for speaking out against violence and injustice. The author calls on medical institutions to defend free speech and the protection of health workers, insisting that the duty to humanity must override political pressures. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-prisons-uk-courts-health-workers-will-not-be-silenced Israel is committing genocide in Gaza says the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Source: Reuters Date: 1 September The world’s biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said. Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member IAGS backed the resolution declaring Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza” had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-is-committing-genocide-gaza-scholars-association-says-2025-09-01/ Full text of the IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza: https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf IAGS page providing reaction to the Resolution and defending the robust process involved in the vote: https://genocidescholars.org/reactions-to-iags-resolution-on-gaza/ Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza Authoritative report by the UN on genocide paves way for ICJ ruling, authors say Source: Middle East Eye Date: 16 Setpember The UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel ruled on Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide in Gaza, in the most authoritative pronouncement to date. The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza Link to full report: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf “This war is a cruel, depraved and deliberate war on the children of Gaza and their future, a generation stolen. If the international community does not step up, we are facing the very real risk of the total annihilation of future Palestinian communities.” Source: Save the Children Date: 6 September https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/2025/gaza-20000-children-killed-23-months-war-more-one-child The Gaza Strip in the Grip of Genocide – Death, Starvation and Trauma Source: Second Palestinian Health Alliance Symposium Date: Tuesday 30 September 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm (UK time) The PHA is an informal network of Palestinian, regional and international researchers, committed to the highest scientific standards in describing, analyzing, and evaluating the health and health care of Palestinians, to contributing to the international scientific literature, and to developing local evidence-based policy and practice. You must register before Friday 26 September https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tY5J-VbACstkDQklA8az9Dt_Y5RAJDf2nZVouL6fzAM/viewform?edit_requested=true Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work special issue on Palestine Source: Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work Date: Setpember 2025 Vol 3, No 2 (2025) of this journal is a Special Issue: Thinking and Practicing Abolition Through Palestine This is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to the development and dissemination of abolitionist values, theory, and praxis within the profession of social work. The guest editors are Stephanie Wahab of Portland State University in the US, and Rupaleem Bhuyan of the University of Toronto in Canada. Among the wide range of articles are ones by Lara Sheehi and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, close associates of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network. https://apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw/issue/view/5 Together for Palestine There was a large solidarity and fundraising concert for Palestine in the Wembley Arena on Wednesday evening, organised by Brian Eno. Damon Albarn teamed up with the London Arab Orchestra and Juzour Dance Collective. Here they are in action on the New Musical Express YouTube channel, playing a medley of Palestinian traditional songs. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-xqeUZRWjMg Mary Nazzal speaking after the end of the concert: It’s a wrap, hats off to all. Stay tuned, this is the beginning. We must shake all spaces, cultural, sports, courts. This is it, we have to give it everything. Free P A L E S T I N E https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOvF4xhiKNg/ Lots more clips on the Together for Palestine Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/t4plive/ FEATURED ACTION You can see a list of all current actions on this page: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ UK Jewish Fast For Gaza on Yom Kippur Source: Jewish Peaceniks UK Date: Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 October Location: Westminster. The exact location to be disclosed nearer the date. An important initiative from our Jewish colleagues many of whom participated in the UKPMHN Fast for Gaza in July. To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish Peaceniks UK are inviting a hundred Jews to join in a public fast on Yom Kippur to express our horror and outrage at the starvation of the Gazan population. The public fast will begin at sunset at 6.24 pm on Wednesday October 1st and end at 7.25pm on October 2nd. – Oct 1st: Kol Nidre. All participants will attend until 8.30 pm – Oct 2nd:Yom Kippur Participants can choose to attend for different periods of the day (See Registration Form) To attend the Yom Kippur Fast for Gaza, please complete the registration form: https://forms.gle/iqBXFrJPxYUByV45A or email: marshasanders21@gmail.com FEATURED EVENTS You can see our full list of events on this page: https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ Palestine: Repair & Return – Interactive Workshop for Activists Thursday 18 September at 6:30pm Location: P21 Gallery, London and online This event presented by Theatre for Everybody (Gaza) and Az Theatre (London) will be a session run by MAKAN whose work is dedicated to equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to become effective advocates and informed allies in the struggle for liberation and justice in Palestine. This session will be run in collaboration with Theatre for Everybody co-directors, Hossam Madhoun and Jamal Al Rozzi. It will take its inspiration from ideas expressed at the event on Thursday 11 September on Stories of Activism. https://p21.gallery/index.php/node/450 Peace & Justice Project Annual Conference 2025 Saturday 20 September and Sunday 21 September Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark St, London E1 2AT Join Jeremy Corbyn and a wide range of national and international speakers, panels and discussions on the global issues we face and how we overcome them. Session 1 on Saturday 20th is War and Building Peace with speakers including: Francesca Albanese, Gabor Maté, Ilan Pappé, Shahd Hammouri and Yasemine Acar. Chaired by Jeremy Corbyn MP. https://thecorbynproject.com/events/annual-conference-2025-programme-saturday-20-september/ 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).” Stop Trade with Settlements Source: Oxfam Date: 15 September A coalition of more than 80 humanitarian, development, human rights and faith-based organisations have launched a comprehensive joint report and international campaign calling for a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. Continued trade, including services and investments with illegal Israeli settlements is incompatible with international law. Governments that permit such trade are complicit in sustaining Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise and its unlawful and prolonged occupation. The new, joint report is called “Trading with Illegal Settlements: How Foreign States and Corporations Enable Israel’s Illegal Settlement Enterprise” It seems that there is not a single web page for this campaign but that each participating organisation promotes the campaign through its own channels. The full list of participating organisations is shown at the start of the report. Two examples are provided here (both include a link to the campaign report): Oxfam https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/new-international-joint-campaign-stop-foreign-complicity-israels-illegal-settlement Britain Palestine Project https://mailchi.mp/britainpalestineproject/enewsletter-13535120 |
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