Cafe Palestine is back! Sat 6th May at 15.45-17.30 (UK time). Plus: Dr Yasser Abu Jamei is coming to London

Cafe Palestine 36
Saturday May 6th 2023 15.45-17.30 (UK time)
Get To Know Us! Our lives with mental illness in the Palestinian community

Presenters: Suzan Mitwalli and Dr Yoke Rabaia from Birzeit University and Professor Hanna Kienzler from Kings College, London

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85488505462?pwd=RjlrVGIvYUhIK0txa1FneDQraHZMdz09

What does it mean to live and participate in the community with severe mental illness? The presenters have researched this question in the context of Palestine with persons with severe mental illness and practitioners from the Palestinian Counseling Centre. Their findings have led to the publication of an illustrated storybook “Get to know us! Our lives with mental illness in the Palestinian community” which explores the difficulties and limited opportunities for people with mental illness to live and participate in their communities.

Chapters focus on the notions of community, life with mental illness, equity, spare time, and the rights to medication and work. In their talk, they will share their insights into community inclusion and participation of people with severe mental illness in Palestine. They will describe the process of co-producing the book and highlight how the book can be used as part of teaching, training and awareness raising initiatives.

The project, which has the idea of social justice at its heart will be of interest, not only to those involved with Palestine but also to anyone using or wishing to explore similar collaborations with those living with a mental illness diagnosis. 

2. Dr Yasser Abu Jamei from the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme

Dr Abu Jamei, Director of the GCMHP and founding member of the Palestine Global Mental Health Network is visiting London in May.The UKPMHN, together with the Friends of Bir Ziet University, and Birkbeck University, are arranging two public meetings to which everyone is cordially invited.

a) Thursday 25th May at 5pm, Birkbeck University. Professor Jacqueline Rose will chair this event.

b) Friday 26th May at 6:00pm-7:30pm hosted by Friends of Bir Zeit University. The venue is not yet confirmed but will be in central London.

Further details of both meetings will be circulated soon.

NPSA congress in Tel Aviv; removal of Palestinian children’s art; plus other campaigns, papers and news

1. No more ‘business as usual’: a call to the NPSA

The International Neuropsychoanalytic Association (NPSA) has responded to requests not to hold its annual congress in Tel Aviv, defending their decision with an apologia for apartheid (‘Israel is a complex and multifaceted society’). The Mental Health Networks’ collective response states that:

‘To counterpose a day or two of talking together as an alternative to sustained solidarity work is arrogant and insulting, as well as directly undermining the only effective strategy of resistance available to Palestinians.’

The full reply, published in Mondoweiss, is available here

Meanwhile, Ahmad Manasra – jailed since he was 13 and now suffering from acute psychological difficulties, is sentenced to a further six months in solitary confinement by an Israeli court.To understand why we oppose the normalisation of apartheid Israel, watch this video.

2. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital removes children’s art at behest of Israel lobby group

Further evidence that support for apartheid Israel avoids cognitive dissonance by refusing to acknowledge Palestinian realities has been provided by an NHS hospital administration. UK Lawyers for Israel are claiming ‘credit’ for protecting Jewish patients from being ‘offended’ by having to see an exhibition of children’s artwork from Gaza. The hospital apparently agrees.

Two articles explore the implications of this betrayal: Gwyn Daniel’s ‘Even with Palestinian children’s art, Israel must make itself the victim’, and Ramzy Baroud’s ‘Palestinian children’s art exposes Israel’s cultural genocide’

There is a petition ‘Rehang Children’s Artwork from Gaza at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’ here

3. Samidoun: Launching ‘a campaign to liberate the remains of Palestinian martyrs’

The UKPMHN supports this campaign to confront one of the most repellent practices of the occupation, the withholding of the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces. This issue, and its impact on the families concerned, was the subject of Café Palestine 9 with Hussam Kana’na. Read this material, write to your MP, write to Samidoun….

4. Fighting the lobby’s racism, with Lara Sheehi

Watch this podcast where Lara is joined by her lawyer Abed Ayoub, executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to talk about how she is resisting the smear campaign and collusion by her university

5. Journal of the American Psychological Association:Call for papers: Practicing decolonial and liberation psychologies

Further details at the link above. Letter of intent deadline: March 30, 2023

6Essential Reading from Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger

Samah and Elizabeth’s new paper has just appeared in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic StudiesCommunity mental health, psychoanalysis, and freedom: The case of Palestine  (unfortunately this is not on open access: students and others should be able to read it through their libraries etc. If not, ask your library to subscribe!)

 7. History: On Britain’s role in suppressing the first Palestinian Revolt 1936-39

A Balfour Project webinar with Matthew Hughes…

UK-Palestine Mental Health Network message of solidarity with Dr Lara Sheehi

UK-Palestine Mental Health Network message of solidarity with Dr Lara Sheehi

Those who attended Café Palestine events during lockdown, or who enjoyed the other webinars that featured the authors of the ground-breaking and prize-winning ‘Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practising Resistance in Palestine’, will be shocked to learn that Professor Lara Sheehi has become the latest academic target of the Zionist lobby in the United States.

Lara has done more than almost anyone, certainly in our field, in sharing her platform with Palestinian colleagues, and in bringing their work to the notice of a worldwide audience. This, no doubt, is the reason that she is being targeted. Working from a decolonial, feminist and liberatory perspective, she is also among the most incisive critics of the adaptive tendencies within the discipline of psychotherapy.

The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network sends its warmest greetings and offers its full support to Lara, in facing the intimidation and threats, the smearing and misrepresentations that she is currently experiencing. We urge George Washington University, which is being pressured to discipline or sack her, to resist the pressure to cave in to groups that we know are established to protect apartheid Israel and its supremacist ideology. Below are the links to some of the many tributes and declarations of support for Lara…

Lara is to be defended by the 
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Palestine Global Mental Health Network: Statement in Defense of Dr. Lara Sheehi at George Washington University
(signed by the USA, UK, Ireland, France Networks, and published in Mondoweiss)

Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council Supports Dr. Lara Sheehi

Letter of Support for Dr. Lara Sheehi by Jewish Colleagues

U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI): Letter in support of Dr. Lara Sheehi
Please sign.

George Washington Uni Student/Alumni Letter of Support for Dr. Sheehi

The editors of Parapraxis Magazine: A Call to Solidarity: Standing with Lara Sheehi whose message incorporates a statement of support for Lara from The Board of Directors, The Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, APA Division 39

The BIPOCanalysis Collective Statement of Support for Dr. Lara Sheehi (‘a group comprised of hundreds of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color within the international psychoanalytic community’).

The following is an article written by Lara herself in which she describes in detail the context for the complaints against her and powerfully rebuts the false account promoted by the pro-Zionist lobby group, StandWithUs. She exposes the racism and misogyny behind these attacks on her and other Palestinian academics who challenge colonising processes
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/03/on-targeting-an-arab-woman

Crisis in Palestine: News, actions, PCC Conference, webinars and research articles

Dear friends,

Colonial powers always claim the right to kill and plunder without consequences. They always label the resistance they encounter as ‘terrorism’. We see the results of this mindset in the wanton use of lethal force employed by Israeli occupation forces that has killed over 30 Palestinians this month and also led to seven Jewish Israeli deaths.

Israeli politicians now openly demand more house demolitions, a collective punishment, and a crime under international law. The international community does nothing. It is time for us all to act, together, to stop settler colonialism in its tracks.

Mental health professionals can, as a start, adopt a “don’t go, don’t support” position in regard to international mental health-related events held in Israel, as described in our Do No Harm statement. By doing so, we avoid gratuitously endorsing colonialism and apartheid, and give meaningful expression to the ethical principles by which we claim to live and work.

In this newsletter: 

1. Neuropsychoanalysts (NPSA) to hold Conference in Tel Aviv:
    the Networks ask that they reconsider.
2. Healing the Spirit and Instilling Hope:
    Yasser Abu Jamei, Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Live from USA
3. Ahmad Manasra Campaign: Physicians’ letter to Israeli President
4. Palestine Counselling Centre 2023 Conference: 20-21 March: call for papers
5. Health and Human Rights Journal: special issue on Palestine
6. A Story of Colonialism, Apartheid and Resistance: two new videos and one old one
7. Café Palestine 35 recording

1. International Neuropsychoanalytic Association (NPSA) to hold Conference in Tel Aviv

This year the NPSA is to hold its annual congress in Tel Aviv, ignoring the request by Palesetinian civil society that international associations refrain from normalising apartheid and colonialism. The UKPMHN has posted an Open Letter to members of the NPSA, and has written to each of the NPSA’s regional groups, protesting this decision and requesting that it is reviewed and revoked.

Please reinforce these actions by adding your voice, sending NPSA a message expressing your concerns. To find your local NPSA group, go to this link. If you have any connection with the NPSA:

i) Circulate the Open Letter and the Do No Harm statement to your contacts, and seek their opinion as to the appropriateness of the conference location.

ii) Call for a pause, creating an opportunity to review the AGM’s decision, and to consult Palestinian mental health professionals as to their views.

iii) Ask individuals in your organisation who agree it should not take place in Israel to write to the NPSA conference committee stating their intention not to attend and giving the reasons why

iv) Find any opportunity to inform other members (at workshops or other meetings) of the gross inappropriateness of Tel Aviv as a location and the affront to human rights it represents.

If you are unsure of the reasons for joining the international boycott movement, please visit the BDS website; and read our ‘Do No Harm’ Statement.

2. Healing the Spirit and Instilling Hope: Yasser Abu Jamei, Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Live from the USA

A tour co-sponsored by
The Jerusalem Fund and the USA Palestine Mental Health Network, Washington DC
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 – 4pm EST, 9pm UK, 11pm Palestine:
this event will be livestreamed on facebook and youtube.

For details of all Yasser’s appearances, go to this link.

3. Ahmad Manasra Campaign: Physicians’ letter to Israeli President

The UKPMHN coordinated the collection of signatures from 149 Physicians, in a letter appealing to Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, to intervene in the case of Ahmad Manasra. The full text can be found here.

With many thanks to all the medical practitioners from our list who added their names to the letter. It has been circulated in parliament and been sent to the UN Special Rapporteurs. To keep up the pressure on the UK government it would be helpful if you also forwarded it to your MP and to any media outlets you know.

This recent webinar is of direct relevance to the free Ahmad Manasra campaign: Arbitrary by Default: Palestinian children in Israeli Military Detention presented by No Way to Treat a Child.

4. Palestine Counselling Centre 2023 Conference: 20-21 March

“Pscychotherapy, the therapist and the therapeutic relationship in the context of Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine”

See the attachment for information about, and an invitation to take part, in this conference. Apologies – this is a late notice: if you have a paper you would like to present do contact PCC soon. See this notice for contact details.

5. Health and Human Rights Journal: special issue on Palestine

Seven up to date and in-depth papers, concluding with ‘A Call for Social Justice and for a Human Rights Approach with Regard to Mental Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories’ by Maria Helbich and Samah Jabr. All recommended.

https://www.hhrjournal.org/volume-24-issue-2-december-2022/#palestine

6. A Story of Colonialism, Apartheid and Resistance: two new videos and one old one:

A new 5 minute video from Makan: ‘Palestine, a Story of Colonialism and Resistance’.

And from Mondoweiss, a 22 minute video: Inside Israeli Apartheid

Video from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions: Resisting the Occupation on the Ground

7. Café Palestine 35 Recording

Standing Together: International Activism and Solidarity with Palestine

This Café Palestine was dedicated to the precious memory of Eamon McMahon 1951-2022

Chair: Victoria Brittain

Tribute by Arlene Healey of the Ireland Palestine Mental Health Network to the activism and solidarity work of Eamon McMahon

Elizabeth Berger and Lama Khouri on international solidarity initiatives from the USA-Palestine Mental health Network and the Palestine-Global Network including collaboration on the campaign for the release of Ahmad Manasra and other child prisoners.

Gwyn Daniel on pushing back against the instrumentalisation of antisemitism to silence Palestinian activism

Guy Shennan and Issa Rabadi on recent collaborative developments in Palestine-related social work activism within the UK, in Palestine and internationally

Open letter to members of the International Neuropsychoanalytic Association (NPSA)

Open letter to members of the International Neuropsychoanalytic Association (NPSA)from the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network

We write to protest the decision of the NPSA to locate its 2023 Conference in Tel Aviv.

It is common knowledge that Palestinian civil society has courteously requested that the international community refrain from acts that collude in a denial of the social injustice, military occupation and oppression to which they are subject. 

To ignore this request is to side with a colonial system of ethnic erasure; a society that the international, Israeli and Palestinian human rights community have declared – in detailed and fully documented reports (see notes below) – to exemplify the crime of apartheid. Apartheid is a crime against humanity under international law: it is our collective responsibility to work to dismantle it. The NPSA’s decision means turning a blind eye to Israel’s deplorable record of human rights abuses and multiple infringements of international law.

The NPSA is asking you to ignore reality: a regime that has for decades (through the use of torture, house demolitions, the plunder of land, the abuse of children, repeated massacres, the routine illegal use of lethal force etc) inflicted mass trauma on the Palestinian people. This is not a place to locate a ‘civilised’ conversation about ‘Play’.

The NPSA may protest that it is neutral, that its presence in Tel Aviv should not be taken as supportive of the regime or its racist ideology: that the NPSA does not intend to ‘normalise’ apartheid.

The evidence suggests otherwise, and is there on its website for everyone to see: 
https://npsa-association.org/events/npsa-congress-tel-aviv-yafo-israel-2023/

When we open this page, we are immediately presented with a series of photographs that, however naïvely or unwittingly, portray Israel as an unproblematic location for scientific work. The snapshots show a country of beauty, a multi-ethnic oasis with a rich cultural heritage, at the same time historic and spiritual, vibrant and forward-looking.

This is illustrative of a profound splitting expressive of the regime’s supremacist fantasies. Israel is not a safe, law-abiding country. The privileges that the NPSA invites you to enjoy – of comfort and security, freedom to travel (and by the quickest and most economical means), access to the beach, of not being targeted due to your ethnicity or religion – are denied to millions of Palestine’s indigenous population. You will be enjoying the privileges afforded by apartheid.

The reality is of relentless state violence and repression; racist laws; and a shocking toll in the maiming and killing of mainly young Palestinian civilians. To get a sense of how distorted a view is being offered to NPSA members, please spend some time exploring the Israel-Palestine Timeline website.

We call on you, as a member or supporter of the NPSA:

i) to protest to your regional associations and to the international leadership, calling for the postponement of this congress until such time as a full assessment of Israel as an appropriate location can be made. Please request that this assessment includes proper consultation with Palestinian mental health professionals and associations.

ii) to refrain from attending this conference, should it go ahead, and to indicate to the organisation your reasons for taking this decision.

The UKPMHN welcomes any contact with individuals or groups belonging to the NPSA, or enquiries from those considering attending this conference, or members of other organisations that are being asked to participate in similar events.

Notes
See: Human Rights Watch 2021; B’Tselem 2021; Amnesty International 2022; Al Haq 2022.

Gaza webinar and book discussion Sat 17 Dec 5pm (UK)

Here are details of a forthcoming webinar and details of a new book:

Palestine Trauma Centre (UK) https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk 
Talk to Gaza” returns with a webinar devoted to Palestinian thoughts about Gaza’s future.

Saturday 17th December 2022
7pm Gaza time / 5pm UK time. 

Our webinar discussion will introduce the recently published

Light in Gaza Writings Born of Fire

Edited by Jehad AbusalimJennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze 

Jennifer Bing and some of the Palestinian contributors join our discussion on 17th December.

Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81187103407
Meeting ID: 811 8710 3407 

Order book from:   HaymarketBooks.org

Light in Gaza is a moving and wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. It constitutes a collective effort to organize and centre Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. 

Get To Know Us! Our Lives with Mental Illness in the Palestinian Community – Wed. Dec. 14, 2022 at 11am (UK)

Dear friends and supporters of UK Palestine Mental Health Network,

Here are details of the launch of an extraordinary, new, illustrated storybook:

Get to Know Us!
Our Lives with Mental Illness in the Palestinian Community

Book Launch in English:
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 @ 11am UK / 1pm Palestine
Click here to register for this meeting in English. 


Book Launch in Arabic:
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 @ 11am UK/ 1pm Palestine
Click here to register for this meeting in Arabic. 

The book explores the difficulties and limited opportunities for people with mental illness to live and participate in their communities with chapters focusing on the notions of community, life with mental illness, equity, spare time, and the rights to medication and work.  

It  is fully co-produced by people with severe mental illness, with researchers from Birzeit University (Suzan Mitwalli, Dr. Yoke Rabaia), King’s College London (Prof. Hanna Kienzler) and staff of the Palestinian Counseling Center. Illustrations by the noted Palestinian artist Amer Shomali. 

A PDF copy of the book (Arabic and English) as well as audio recordings (Arabic) of all the chapters are freely available to you on this website: https://www.get-to-know-us.com

If you have questions, please get in touch with Suzan Mitwalli at smitwalli@birzeit.edu

You can also ask for hardcopies of the book: 

If you are based in Palestine, please contact Suzan Mitwalli from the Institute of Public and Community Health – Birzeit University.

If you are based outside Palestine and would like English copies, please contact Hanna Kienzler from King’s College: hanna.kienzler@kcl.ac.uk

Café Palestine 35 on 3rd December 2022 at 3:45pm (UK) / 5:45pm (Pal) Standing Together: International Activism and Solidarity with Palestine

Café Palestine 35
3rd December 2022 at 3:45pm (UK) / 5:45pm (Pal)

Standing Together: International Activism and Solidarity with Palestine

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89763624365 

This Café Palestine is dedicated to the precious memory of Eamon McMahon 1951-2022

Special note: Please try to arrive by 3.45pm. In place of live music, during the first 15 minutes we will remember the contribution of Eamon McMahon, who died earlier this year. Please, therefore, aim to arrive promptly. The meeting will open at 3.40pm (UK), 5.40pm (Palestine).

Chair: Victoria Brittain

3.45pm Tribute by Arlene Healey of the Ireland Palestine Mental Health Network to the activism and solidarity work of Eamon McMahon

4pm Introduction to the three presentations

4.10pm Elizabeth Berger and Lama Khouri on international solidarity initiatives from the USA-Palestine Mental health Network and the Palestine-Global Network including collaboration on the campaign for the release of Ahmad Manasra and other child prisoners.

4.35pm Gwyn Daniel on pushing back against the instrumentalisation of antisemitism to silence Palestinian activism

4.50pm Guy Shennan and Issa Rabadi on recent collaborative developments in Palestine-related social work activism within the UK, in Palestine and internationally

5.15pm Discussion and Q and A

5.30pm Close

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89763624365

Speakers  
Elizabeth Berger is a child psychiatrist living in New York City and a member of the Steering Committee of the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network. Her work as an activist with colleagues in Palestine focuses on the impact of the occupation on health and well-being.

Victoria Brittain  is a British writer and journalist who has written widely on Human Rights and Politics in the Middle East and beyond. She has visited the West Bank and Gaza many times over the past thirty years. She is a founder member of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature and is trustee of the Palestinian Book awards. She has been closely associated with the UK Palestine Mental Health Network. Her most recent book is Love and Resistance in the films of Mai Masri published by Palgrave Macmillan New York.

Gwyn Daniel is a consultant systemic psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She is on the steering group of the UK Palestine Mental Health Network. She is a patron of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza. She has given presentations in the UK and Europe and published articles on the impact of Israeli settler colonialism on Palestinian family life.

Arlene Healey is a consultant systemic psychotherapist and former Director of the Family Trauma Centre, Belfast. She is a founder member of the Ireland Palestine Mental Health Network

Lama Khouri DPsa, LCSW-R is a Palestinian psychotherapist based in New York. She is one of the founders of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and is on its steering committee.  Lama has a private practice and is a clinical supervisor at the Arab American Family Support Center.  She comes to the field of mental health following a 14-year career at the United Nations, most of which she spent as a political affairs officer at the Department of Peace Operations.

Issa Rabadi is a Palestinian social worker, member of the Palestinian Union for Social Workers and Psychologists (PUSWP), and of the Palestine-UK Social Work Network.

Guy Shennan is a social worker and therapist based in London, UK. A founder member of the Palestine-UK Social Work Network, with colleagues in the UK, and Issa and other social work colleagues in Palestine, Guy is now a member of the steering group of the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network.

Café Palestine 35 – Saturday 3rd December! Plus: hear Samah Jabr online, and other news

Dear friends,

In this issue:

  1. Cafe Palestine no 35:
    Standing together: International activism and solidarity with Palestine
    Sat 3rd Dec – hold the date!!
  2. Suffering, Sumud & Mental Health in Palestine: The Impact of the Israeli Occupation on Palestinian women. Thursday 24th November.
  3. Two short videos from the Palestine Trauma Centre
  4. Three responses to the results of the recent Israeli election
  5. The Convivencia Alliance for a Just Peace in Palestine: a new initiative of Muslims, Jews and Christians committed to building a new society.
     

1. Cafe Palestine no 35: International Solidarity
Saturday 3 December at 15.45 (17.45 Palestinian time, 10.45 EST)

Café Palestine will now be an occasional, rather than a regular, happening. In this next event we share some international solidarity initiatives in support of Palestine from the Mental Health field.

The meeting will be dedicated to the memory of Eamon McMahon, Irish Psychotherapist and activist and will include contributions from the UK, USA, Palestine Global and Irish networks.

Further details of speakers and topics will be announced in our next mailing.


2. Suffering, Sumud & Mental Health in Palestine: The Impact of the Israeli Occupation on Palestinian women

The Scottish Palestine Forum hosts Dr Samah Jabr (Palestine Global MH Network) and Gwyn Daniel (UKPMHN) to speak: Thursday 24th November 7pm (UK).

To register for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpfuugqT8oHNPsuWAb50b4tVE57a3VTWH6


3. Palestine Trauma Centre

Two short videos illustrating the inspiring work of PTC. The first is a record of a unique trip made by two of the Days of Joy clowns to Italy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfzQRArYIrE

The second is about the project focusing on disabled people in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMbjTQr2Qc

Explore the work of PTC (and donate perhaps) at https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/


4. The Israeli Election

The latest election saw the ultra-right, those most openly opposed to Palestinian rights and the most supportive of settler violence, consolidating their hold on Israeli politics. In what is already set to be one of the deadliest years of the occupation, this is deeply worrying. While it supports the analysis of Zionism as a settler colonial project, we can only imagine that Western Governments, and social democratic parties, will continue to reconcile themselves to the regime. Here are some responses.

4a) Palestinian parents fear for their children as Israel’s far right rises, an article from the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/11/israel-west-bank-ben-gvir/

4b) Prof. Haim Bresheeth-Zabner (author of a recently published history of the IDF), reflecting on the nature and implications of the election. A Left Horizons webinar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLRJq287Rlo&t=511s

4c) Prof. Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, gives his:
Report on the Israeli Election


5. The Convivencia Alliance for a Just Peace in Palestine

This is a new initiative convened by Prof. Haim Bresheeth (Jewish Network for Palestine), Mr. Massoud Shadjareh (Islamic Human Rights Commission) and Revd. Dr. Stephen Sizer (Peacemaker Trust). Drawing on historical experiences of creative co-existence, it offers a vision of a just, shared future for Palestine.

“In opposition to the current militarised ‘solutions’ on offer – based on racist oppression, brute force, denial of rights and colonial dispossession – it sets out to develop a proposal based on a history of shared values of the monotheistic faiths and on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

For more information see The Convivencia Project website, and this article, further outlining its approach: The Convivencia Alliance for a Just Peace in Palestine.

Palestinian mental health workers address their colleagues worldwide

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please read this Position Paper from the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network called “Concerning the Recent Acts of Zionist Aggression, Brutal Siege and Killing Taking Place Across Palestinian Cities, Villages and Refugee Camps”. It provides their analysis of the recent intensification of repression and resistance in Palestine, and their call for our solidarity and support.

Please consider how you might make use of this Statement within your professional associations and workplaces. 

UKPMHN 

“Concerning the Recent Acts of Zionist Aggression, Brutal Siege and Killing Taking Place Across Palestinian Cities, Villages and Refugee Camps”
https://www.pgmhn.org/statements/position-paper