Mission
Psychologists for Justice in Palestine (PJP) is a collective of psychologists, psychology students, and affiliated mental health professionals from diverse backgrounds who are in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian Liberation. We share the aims of building skills and capacity and taking collective action to advocate for the field of psychology, and psychological and counseling organizations, to contribute towards justice for Palestine.
Goals
We aim to build individual and collective skills and capacity and take collective action to advocate for the field of psychology and related organizations such as the APA, APA affiliated divisions, and state psychological associations to:
- Issue official public statements calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and Palestine more generally
- Endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement
- Support Palestinian-led movements for a Free Palestine (e.g., BDS) through influencing our discipline and its organizations
- Hold open, genuine conversations about Palestine, distinctions of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and U.S. complicity and support in Palestinian colonization
- Urge APA-affiliated divisions, state psychological associations, and other psychology organizations and associations to center the voices of Palestinians that are so often silenced
- Protect psychologists’ and psychology students’ right to speak in support of a Free Palestine
- Promote psychology, psychologists’, and affiliated mental health professionals’ recognition of and engagement with connections of racism and colonialism, particularly effects on Palestinians, MENA and SWANA communities, and all people who have been colonized
Offerings
- PJP email listserv to communicate and share resources
- Community offerings to build various skills related to our mission
- Advocacy actions to work toward structural and organizational level change
- Resource sharing and education