The Palestine Mental Health Networks
Uniting global clinicians and advocates to challenge political trauma, resist state violence, and center Palestinian-led liberation.
Our Preamble.
The Palestine Mental Health Networks (PMHN) are committed to justice, freedom, and dignity for Palestine, and to solidarity with oppressed and marginalized people worldwide, with the understanding that at this time Palestine will be our priority.
Our work is grounded in the vision of the Palestinian Network, namely, Palestine-Global Mental Health Network (Pal-Global), centering the leadership and demands of our Palestinian colleagues and comrades.
We affirm our values of anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, democracy, human rights, and collective care. As mental health professionals and advocates, our duty is to tell the truth, refuse complicity with state violence, and work collectively liberation
Do No Harm
Join us for an online event with Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights and recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. Hosted by the International Palestine Mental Health Networks (including Café Palestine, Dardasheh, UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, and Shatāt-USA).
Our Alignment with the mission extends beyond formal endorsement to include active engagement with the principles of anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and solidarity with oppressed peoples.
Our Guiding Principles:
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We are committed to justice, freedom, and dignity for Palestine, and solidarity with oppressed and marginalized people worldwide, with the understanding that at this time Palestine will be our priority.ription text goes here -
Palestinian Leadership:
We are guided by the vision of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, centering the leadership and priorities of our Palestinian colleagues and comrades. -
Autonomy with Alignment:
Each network is autonomous in its internal governance and actions. Only the network in each country has the exclusive right to decide how Palestine advocacy operates in their country, while adhering to this charter. While promoting shared thinking and mutual reflection on their activism, no network may interfere with or dictate advocacy approaches in another country. Collective statements or actions require a two-thirds majority of all participating networks and must remain aligned with Palestine-Global’s vision. -
Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS):
We fully endorse the Palestinian call for BDS and anti-normalization practices as stipulated by the BDS movement leadership as a nonviolent, principled strategy rooted in international law and anti-racist values. -
Solidarity Across Struggles:
We recognize that the struggles of oppressed groups worldwide are inherently connected to the liberation of Palestine through shared systems of oppression. Each network maintains the autonomy to build alliances with other movements within their own countries as they deem appropriate, including movements for Indigenous rights, LGBTQ+ rights, children's rights, feminist and gender justice, prison and torture abolition, climate justice, and anti-racist/anti-fascist struggles. We acknowledge that each network is best positioned to determine which local partnerships align with its values, capacity, and strategic priorities. -
As mental health professionals, we commit to “first do no harm,” refuse normalization of apartheid, genocide, and settler colonialism, and reject collaboration with institutions complicit in these systems.
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We uphold respectful communication, collective accountability, and the practice of collective care in all our work.
Our Global Presence
The Palestine Mental Health Networks bring together mental health professionals across 23 countries, united in promoting mental wellbeing, liberation, dignity, and social justice for all peoples. Our work begins with Palestine.