Joelle Abi-Rached

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Joelle Abi-Rached (@joelleabirached.bsky.social) exposes the limits of psychiatry and language to hold Gaza’s trauma—where grief, violence, and survival are inseparable from justice.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/trauma-after-...

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Deeply honored that my essay “Trauma after Gaza” was selected as the centerpiece of this timely special issue …

🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.

Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

"By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught—financially, materially, and ideologically—Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the rules-based legal order that the West itself developed in the wreckage of World War II" www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and of its victims’ recourse to human rights and international law as a final forum of appeal for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the “wretched of the earth,” whoever and wherever they may be. @joelleabirached.bsky.social

The word is capacious

'Petro thus spoke in Bogotá of the need both to condemn prevailing “barbarism” and to give real meaning to the principles now being betrayed—to keep alive, that is, “the possibility of another kind of humanity, one that can love and think collectively.”'

Boston Review's 50th anniversary issue, featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide

Our 50th anniversary issue heads to the printer soon.

Featuring Robin D. G. Kelley in a special section on the responsibility of intellectuals in the age of fascism and genocide, w/ @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, & @martinoneill.bsky.social.

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Opinion: Even in war, attacking medical facilities must remain off limits Disregard for the policy of ‘medical neutrality’ in war – outlined in treaties like the Geneva Conventions - has given rise to a new term: healthocide

"We can’t allow ‘healthocide’ to become the norm, in Gaza or elsewhere" -Andre Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I also wrote on attacks on medical facilities👇
There must be consequences: Accountability for war crimes can help stop attacks on hospitals justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/02/t...

‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza

'Targeting medics and hospitals in acts of war should be called “healthocide”, academics have urged, amid an increase in such attacks in recent years.'

Link to original comment in BMJ Global Health: gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when...

Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when...

It took a year to get this paper out after earlier versions, incl. one in Nov 2023, were rejected without peer review given the astounding silence of US journals. Medical neutrality is collapsing, yet it remains the last shield for health workers in war zones #healthocide gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Healthocide and medical neutrality: a call for action and reflection Six million people live in Lebanon, including 1.5 million Syrian and 500 000 Palestinian refugees. Israel has attacked Lebanon multiple times, most recently from 8 October until 27 November 2024, when...

Historian Charles Rosenberg said a disease “does not exist unless you name it.” By naming this pathology of modern warfare, we aim to rally medicine, social science, education & law to confront its vast toll on human wellbeing. #healthocide #Gaza gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Expertos proponen denominar ‘sanicidio’ a la destrucción intencionada de la sanidad en guerras La revista BMJ Global Health ha publicado un artículo de opinión que acuña este término para definir la destrucción intencionada de sistemas sanitarios como táctica de guerra. Los autores denuncian la instrumentalización de la atención médica en conflictos como el de Gaza y piden a la comunidad médica internacional que se pronuncie ante esta forma de violencia.

Honoured to see our new BMJ Global Health article on the deliberate destruction of health systems in war — what we call "healthocide" or “sanicidio” in Spanish — profiled today by Agencia SINC, the news agency of the Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology. www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Exp...

‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in Gaza

“Health” is of Germanic origin and means “whole” ..by “healthocide” we mean the destruction of the right to health and healthcare of an entire population. Gaza today is the paragon of healthocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

"[Gaza] exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life, whatever their beliefs, skin color, or religious affiliation."

thank you @joelleabirached.bsky.social for this painful but essential piece

Thank you for telling this story, a forceful yet surgical account that resists simplification while confronting the enormity of the horror.

• @joelleabirached.bsky.social on Gaza and the discrediting of the liberal international order

• @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on Mamdani’s triumph and the future of the Democratic Party

• @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social on memoirs of the Arab Jewish world destroyed by colonialism

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

“Gaza has become a symbol both of Western hypocrisy and its victims’ recourse to human rights as a final forum for collective deliverance—the deliverance of the wretched of the earth, whoever and wherever they may be. The consequences cannot be overstated.” @joelleabirached.bsky.social

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

By underwriting Israel’s genocidal onslaught so flagrantly, Western governments have hastened the final discrediting of the legal order the West itself developed after World War II. @joelleabirached.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

Painful to write—born of disappointment. I call for critical engagement with the West, not bashing its epistemic frameworks: expose its racism and double standards while salvaging and advancing the universal human‑rights framework forged after WWII. Perhaps the baton now rests w/ the ‘Global South.’

Hassan Khalil's brother held in fake cancer drugs case Mohammad Khalil, the brother of Speaker Nabih Berri’s aide MP Ali Hassan Khalil, has been arrested in the case of the fake cancer drugs that have entered the Lebanese market, media reports said. Al-J...

One word: criminals

www.naharnet.com/stories/en/3...

Congrats Erik!

More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained

Disconcerting.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Do Pandemics Ever End? | NEJM Since pandemics are sociopolitical as well as epidemiologic events, their end is determined not only by epidemiologic criteria but also by social, political, economic, and ethical concerns.

Now that measles is on the rise again in the US, along with bird flu becoming 'endemic', it is worth pondering the question once again: Do pandemics ever end? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.” Virchow

The Rivierization of the World - Boston Review Trump’s plans for Gaza crystallize the dreams of empire.

When Trump speaks of turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” he draws on a deep reservoir of American imperial myths and reflects the increasingly naked and brazen imperatives of today’s hyper-capitalism.

@joelleabirached.bsky.social on the Rivierization of the world: