| UKPALMHN Solidarity Space Monday 24 November 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. National Demonstration for PalestineSource: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Date: Saturday 29 November from 12:00 noon to 4:30pm Location: From Park Lane to Whitehall End the Occupation – Stop Arming Israel – End Apartheid On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we will be marching again in London to demand an end to Israel’s genocide, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians .https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-demonstration-for-palestine-29-november/ Fatina was 11 when the bomb ripped through her shelter … Source: Adam Goren, a psychoanalytically trained child and adolescent psychotherapist Date: 17 November In this short essay, child psychotherapist Adam Goren suggests Palestine exposes a dark and troubling irony; that broken greed-driven societies create the very distress they then deploy therapy to alleviate. The experience of Palestinian healer Ashira Darwish is drawn on to show how brown and black bodies are isolated and targeted for remediation as part of a gargantuan (largely unconscious) gaslighting project. In centring personal pain, western psychotherapies and other such interventions inadvertently distract from root causes of distress in a whole people’s, often deliberate, brutalisation and dehumanisation. Such broken societies, bent on capital accumulation, create psychological-industrial-complexes that monetise their own misery. Nevertheless, as 11-year-old Fatina and her mental health worker from Gaza illuminate, Palestinians are finding their own solutions to the unimaginable horror inflicted upon them. https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/fatina/ On professional silence during genocide: The 2025 Sigourney Award Source: Palestine-Global Mental Health Network writing in CounterPunch Date: 18 November This article exposes how the Sigourney Award—celebrating trauma-expertise—has never honoured a Palestinian professional in 35 years, even while genocide is occurring in Gaza and Palestinian mental-health workers are active on the ground. It highlights the complicity of institutions in erasing Palestinian suffering and mentions that the International Collective of Palestine Mental Health Networks will continue centring Palestinian voices and resisting frameworks that treat them only as subjects of study, not as agents of healing. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/18/on-professional-silence-during-genocide-the-2025-sigourney-award/ Torture and health worker complicity in Israeli detention sites Source: The British Medical Journal Date: 11 November This article reports that Palestinian detainees continue to face systematic torture and degrading treatment in Israeli custody, including in facilities such as Sde Teiman, and raises concerns about the role of Israeli health workers who document or witness abuse without intervening. It calls for robust international scrutiny and emphasises the ethical obligation of medical professionals to prevent harm, uphold human rights standards and resist institutional complicity. https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2347 Freed Palestinian child prisoners recount torture in Israeli custody Source: Middle East Eye Date: 15 November In interviews conducted by the NGO Defense for Children Palestine (DCIP), three children describe how they were abducted by Israeli forces near aid distribution points and transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp in southern Israel. They said they endured torture, beatings and starvation in Israeli custody. The trauma has left them unable to sleep, and they are plagued by night terrors and bed wetting. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prison-inside-me-freed-palestinian-child-prisoners-recount-torture-israeli-custody Israel punishes a rape whistleblower but embraces the alleged rapist soldiers Source: Zeteo Date: 18 November The article reports that Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi, the former military advocate who leaked footage of alleged rape by Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman prison camp, is now facing retaliation while the accused soldiers are being publicly celebrated. It argues that the mainstream media remains largely silent as state-backed officials reframe whistle-blowing as defamation and the victims’ truth is suppressed. https://zeteo.com/p/israel-punishes-rape-whistleblower-embraces-soldiers “I’m happy and sad to see you”: the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide Source: Mondoweiss Date: 26 October This opinion piece by Dr Hassan El-Nabih reflects on a moment in the enclave of Gaza where a former student told him, “I’m happy to see you … and also sad to see you,” capturing the dual emotions of survival amidst devastation. He explains how Gaza’s academic life, languishing under siege and bombardment, has become a testament to resilience—not only of bodies, but of education, memory and resistance. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-happy-and-sad-to-see-you-the-paradox-of-surviving-the-gaza-genocide/ Tents in Gaza collapse from rain as Palestinians struggle with massive flooding Source: Drop-Site News Date: 14 November The article documents how displaced Palestinians in Gaza — many living in tents following the war — are now facing heavy winter rains and flooding, underscoring that trauma and precarious living conditions persist long after the ceasefire. It highlights how shelters are flooding, children’s belongings are ruined, and aid continues to be restricted, emphasising that the suffering in Gaza has not ended. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-rain-flooding-tents-winter-storms-displaced-shelter Reading the crisis: “For Edward Said” with Brenna Bhandar and Hashem Abushama Source: Stuart Hall Foundation Date: 9 November This online teach-in revisits Edward Said through Stuart Hall’s 2004 open letter “For Edward Said”, exploring its relevance for current debates on the Israel–Palestine system and academic discourse. The session examines how Said’s critiques of Orientalism and intellectual responsibility intersect with Hall’s conjunctural analysis to offer tools for rethinking colonial power, representation and resistance today. https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/reading-the-crisis-for-edward-said-with-brenna-bhandar-and-hashem-abushama/ What happened to the Palestinian popular struggle? Source: +972 podcast Date: 6 November In the occupied West Bank today, life looks completely different than it did just two years ago — with unprecedented levels of state-backed settler violence, arbitrary arrests, new road closures, and mounting economic pressure. But resistance, too, is changing. Veteran activist Munther Amira connects this moment to earlier chapters of the Palestinian struggle and reflects on what it means to keep resisting when survival itself has become the fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpo-8Jacu6s Recording of UKPMHN Cafe Palestine 38 The UKPMHN Cafe Palestine 38 – The normalisation of Genocide and Ecocide – took place on Saturday 15 November 2025. The meeting reflected on a world that sponsors genocide, and indulges a cynical disregard for the ecological disasters that have been unleashed on Gaza and which threaten further mass death, particularly in the global South. The speakers were: Prof Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian scientist and author, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University; Prof Paul Hoggett, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. He co-founded the Climate Psychology Alliance and served as its first chair in 2012. https://youtu.be/bY16uQiRFXs This and all previous UKPMHN Cafe Palestines can be found at: https://ukpalmhn.com/cafe-palestine/cafe-palestine-index/ FEATURED EVENTS There are 15 informative and inspring events listed in the run up to Christmas: https://ukpalmhn.com/events/ Gaza: Reprocide and the weaponisation of starvation (webinar) Date: Sunday 23 November at 6pm (UK time) Source: JVP Health Advisory Council and Harvard FXB Center (in conjunction with the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network) This webinar examines how starvation is deployed as a tool of war in Gaza, featuring Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar and physician-advocate Dr Alice Rothchild. It situates their testimony within broader discussions on reproductive violence, military policy and humanitarian ethics. Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar is a West Point graduate and 25 year special forces veteran. Col. Aguilar joined the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation but quit after witnessing war crimes including the shooting of unarmed Gazans at food distribution centers. He has devoted his time since as a whistleblower. https://www.jvphealth.org/events/sunday-november-23-2025-jvp-hac-webinar-reprocide-and-the-weaponization-of-starvation War trauma in children: Voices from Gaza and global perspectives (webinar) Date: Friday28 November at 12:30 (UK time) Source: Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Islam Indonesia and Palestine-Global Mental Health Network Indonesia This webinar examines the psychological impact of ongoing conflict on children, featuring contributions from mental health professionals working in Gaza and international experts in trauma and childhood studies. It focuses on the current mental-health crisis, evidence-based interventions in conflict zones and the role of global solidarity in supporting affected children. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy4yIH2YLcGlot_KMxjbhy7CDOp67AqayDDZoOAsZMP5gYvA/viewform Break the Silence: Trauma therapists talk about Gaza Date: Saturday 29 November at 8pm Source: EMDR Therapists for Palestine This is an online event and it will be recorded. Have you felt powerless, frustrated, gaslit and shut down when trying to talk about the Palestinian genocide in therapeutic spaces? Confused as to why trauma therapists want to talk about healing trauma, both collectively and intergenerationally, yet avoid mentioning Gaza? Join Gabor Maté and Palestinian friends including experienced therapists Nada Khader and Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi to explore the implications of what Maté calls “the unspeakable collective trauma that has been for decades inflicted on the people of Palestine,.. A trauma witnessed and grieved by millions around the world”. Please buy a ticket, your donations will support the recovery of children from Gaza. https://events.humanitix.com/breaking-the-silence-trauma-therapists-talk-about-gaza The Logic of Extermination/The Logic of Denial: An Online Symposium Date: Sunday14 December at 6pm (UK time) Source: The Psychosocial Foundation × Parapraxis This full-day online symposium explores how the “logic of extermination” and the “logic of denial” operate in the context of the genocide in Gaza and other long-standing racialised violences, bringing together international scholars across three panels. It serves as a fundraiser for the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, emphasising how psychological, political and historical frameworks are interwoven in mass violence. https://www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/logics-of-extermination-and-denial FEATURED ACTION For all actions see: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Tell your Councillors: Divest from Companies Enabling Israel’s Genocide Source: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Date: November 2025 E-mail your councillors today to demand that the council ends its financial ties to companies complicit in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. PSC has sent a legal notice to every council in England & Wales administering a Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund, outlining that they are under a legal obligation to take steps to divest from companies enabling and profiting from Israel’s genocide, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/divestmentduty 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).” People’s Embargo for Palestine webinar launch Date: Saturday22 November at 6pm (UK time) Source: Palestinian Youth Movement This webinar launches the People’s Embargo for Palestine and provides updates on the #MaskOffMaersk campaign and coordinated international efforts to halt the flow of arms and energy to Israel. Speakers from unions and organisations across several countries will discuss strategies for building pressure on governments, corporations and institutions to end complicity in the assault on Palestinians. https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ7U_JykS7z/ |
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 