In September 2023, I attended the annual meeting of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions in London , having reconnected with the organization’s cofounder, Jeff Halper, in Jerusalem a few weeks before.
One of the speakers was Yoa’d Ghanadry-Hakim, a clinical psychologist with the Palestinian Counseling Center in Beit Hanina.
According to the website, the center was “founded in Jerusalem in 1983 by a group of psychologists, educators and community activists … to work with all members of the Palestinian Society exposed to political, social, economic and psychological prejudice and violence in order to support and develop the psychosocial concepts of services in Palestine.”
Hakim said that, when discussing Palestinian psychology, the term PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) was entirely inappropriate. ….more
