Dr Samah Jabr

Samah Jabr MD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist; the Head of the Mental Health Unit, Palestine Ministry of Health; and Assistant Clinical Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. She is also the author of Derrière les fronts (Behind the Frontlines)

April 26, 2022 | Dr Samah Jabr

Brunel University has buckled under pro-Israel pressure to silence Palestinian voices

Earlier this month, Professor Paul Hellewell, Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Britain's Brunel University, assured its students that an "anti-Israel"...

Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
January 28, 2022 | Dr Samah Jabr

Gaza, the Betrayed

Gaza is less than 100 kilometres from Jerusalem. It is deliberately placed out of reach, separated by three visible borders. The Israeli border is the main obstacle, but there...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 24, 2021 | Dr Samah Jabr

Permissible pain: How to deal with traumatic images coming from Palestine

Every aggression waged by the Israeli war machine against the Palestinian people is supported by international mainstream media platforms that falsify facts and justify Israel's "right to defend itself"....

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 18, 2021 | Dr Samah Jabr

Resistance to Israel's occupation is an essential element in the recovery of the occupied mind

Israel has imposed military occupation, settler-colonialism, and an apartheid regime upon a multitude of fragmented Palestinian communities, thereby creating, sustaining, and contributing to grave health and mental health issues....

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
May 12, 2021 | Dr Samah Jabr

In the battle for liberation, Gaza is closer to Jerusalem than Ramallah is

Ramadan has been a tense month in Jerusalem; it started with the Israelis forbidding Palestinian Jerusalemites from using the area at the Damascus Gate as a public space for...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
September 24, 2020 | Dr Samah Jabr

Arab normalisation is another attempt to defeat the Palestinians psychologically

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign ministers representing the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the "Abraham Accords Peace Agreement" in Washington DC which normalises their...

Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine