“…The Palestine Mental Health Network is urging mental health professionals to resign from the International Psychoanalytical Association over the organization’s anti-Palestinian bias.
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The IPA has been silent on Gaza for over two years. More than 73,000 killed. Over 20,000 children dead. Famine engineered. Torture documented. The International Court of Justice named Israel’s conduct plausible genocide in January 2024. The UN Commission of Inquiry confirmed it as genocide in September 2025. The International Association of Genocide Scholars confirmed it as genocide. The IPA has issued no statement, called for no ceasefire, named no crime. The words “occupation,” “genocide,” “apartheid,” “siege,” “collective punishment,” and “ethnic cleansing” have not appeared in any formal IPA communication on Palestine.
This is not a story about institutional cowardice alone. It is a story about selective institutional courage.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the IPA moved within days: a dedicated crisis page, an emergency relief fund, clinical resources, and a statement declaring the war “immoral” and demanding it “must stop.” IPA President Heribert Blass stated: “We demand an immediate end to the war.” We demand. For Gaza — across more than two years, across 73,000 killed, across children shot in the head daily, across famine engineered and torture documented — the IPA has not demanded anything. It has not called for a single ceasefire. For Ukraine: moral clarity and institutional mobilization. For Gaza: silence. The IPA would have us believe this difference is a legal matter. It is not. It is race…”