This report focused on stories of repression in British mental health care to evidence an essential point of racism: those who experience racism are best placed to outline the racial politics of an institution. In the case of Palestine, Zionism and counter-terrorism are fundamental in the erasure and repression of Palestinian solidarity.
For many in the UK, the struggle has been to get our institutions to recognise there is a genocide in Gaza. Indeed, as this research demonstrated, even the mention of genocide is suppressed. It begs the reader to question and theorise the racial politics
underlying Palestine’s erasure in liberal settings, like British mental health institutions.
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