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Healing against settler colonialism: Devin G. Atallah, Yasser M. Abu-Jamei, ‘Rethinking Trauma Against a Genocidal World: Palestinian Healing Is a Sound of Our Victory’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2025

07Apr25

Abstract: In this essay, two Palestinian healers, mental health workers, and fathers offer reflections on trauma, healing, and love in the face of Israeli genocide and settler-colonial violence across Palestine. Recognizing that the trauma and healing processes will extend much further than any moment of ceasefire, the authors, one of whom survived the genocide in Gaza, offer insights into trauma and healing as integral parts of their own personal and professional experiences. In doing so, they reimagine the trauma that Indigenous communities face as a result of settler colonialism not as a “mental illness,” but as being connected to the silence and inability of the world to stop genocide in ways that protect collective Palestinian liberation. They conclude that Palestinian trauma is an intergenerational message to a genocidal world, requiring courageous listening in the face of the ongoing Nakba. Palestinian healing, they offer, is a sound of Palestinian victory.


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