Israel Diaries

Independent investigative journalism

A Trauma Therapist on the Ongoing Victim Status of the Palestinian Arabs

As a retired trauma therapist I cannot ignore a comment made by a Palestinian Arab woman in a promotional video invitation to participate in the May 15th Nakba Day ceremony about which I wrote here. The script has her say: Because we are still trapped in our role as victims Palestinian Arabs claim to be […]

The Occupation, Coronavirus and Palestinian Mental Health

Because of Corona lockdowns, now everyone around the world knows what it is like to be under Israeli “occupation”, say the authors of a recent article published in The International Journal of Human Rights in Health Care. The journal is peer-reviewed and seeks to be a bridge between policy makers, researchers and practitioners and to […]

Palestinian Arab Students: Because Of The “Israeli Occupation”

Another Wizard of Oz in academia. Here is an article that seems to damn the “Israeli Occupation” but it does not, really. The authors should have had the sense not to publish this paper because it proves something very different from what they set out to show. If anyone actually reads the substance of the […]