Group Analysts for Palestine

Facilitated by Teresa Von Sommaruga Howard

For tickets/registration, please CLICK HERE or email us at:
GA4Palestine@alloneworld.org

Socio-Political injustice permeates our world, bringing with it the associated dynamics of privileging those in power and acts of turning away. Breaking silence and speaking truth to power shifts this pattern. In the current world climate, and with specific reference to events in Palestine/Israel and the enabling complicity of large swathes of the Western world, we believe it is vital and incumbent upon us to now speak out. As Group Analysts and citizens of the world, we join the resounding call to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in international law and make a clear statement in unequivocal solidarity with Palestinians and for Palestine.

Programme for the Event
Sunday, 10th November 2024 – Online

2.00 – 2.05: Sue Einhorn, Chair: Hello & Introductions how we’re going to be together today

2.05 – 2.15: What is Group Analysts for Palestine (GA4P)

2.15 – 2.30: Speaker 1: Martin Kemp is a psychoanalyst and activist. He was a founder memberofthe UK-Palestine Mental Health Network in 2014. A special issue of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies entitled ‘Settler Colonialism: the Palestine/Israel case’, which he guest-edited and to which he contributed two papers, appeared in the summer of 2020.

2.30 – 2.45: Speaker 2: Lynne Segal is an Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and activist, author of many books; including  most recentlyRadical Happiness: Moments of Radical Joy (Verso 2017) Lean on me: A Politics of Radical Care (Verso 2023), and participant in many campaigns, from local community to international. She has taught in higher education in London, England since 1970, at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1973 She is professor emerita of psychosocial studies at Birkbeck, University of London, where she had been based since 1999 as Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies.

2.45 – 3.00: Speaker 3: Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian writer, academic and activist who fled her home in Jerusalem with her family in 1948. She has since lived in London, training as a physician and working in the NHS for many years. Subsequently, she has held a number of research appointments in Middle Eastern politics and culture, most recently at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, at the University of Exeter. Her books include the memoirs In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (Verso, 2002) and Return: A Palestinian Memoir (Verso, 2015) as well as the most recent One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel. (Pluto Press, 2023)

10 MINUTE BREAK resuming at 3.10 p.m.

3.10 – 3.45 Comments & Discussion (35 minutes – Sue Einhorn, Chair)

3.45 – 5.00 Large Group (1.15 hours) – Faciliated by Teresa von Sommaruga Howard

5.00: Close

To view and download our statement on Palestine, please visit
www.alloneworld.org/groupanalystsforpalestine/statement

Join Us: If you are interested in joining GA4P and adding your
support to voices against occupation and genocide, email us at:
GA4Palestine@alloneworld.org