We are calling for a mass exodus from the IPA.
What does this involve? Resign from the IPA, tell them why you’re resigning, and make your resignation public by posting on professional listservs or social media. Tag us so we can keep people informed.
Why withdraw? The IPA has invoked “legal constraints” to avoid naming the genocide in Gaza — yet found no such constraints when condemning Russia. It has platformed voices that pathologize Palestinians but has welcomed no event speaking to concerns so many of us share about Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian rhetoric within psychoanalysis. And it has echoed language describing Gaza as a war of “light against darkness” — a phrase Israeli officials use to cast Palestinians as a civilizational enemy, as darkness itself. An institution that does all this while claiming neutrality does not deserve our membership. Resigning is the least we can do.
Continue reading at https://www.pmhn-international.org/psychoanalysis-of-conscience-a-call-to-resign