Palestinian people ‘living under constant trauma’: Expert
Dr Gabor Mate, an author and trauma expert, has described a conversation he had with Palestinian women who had been tortured in Israeli prisons during a recent visit to the occupied Palestinian territories.
“Somebody said to me there, ‘We don’t have post-traumatic stress disorder here because the trauma is never post.’ So this is a people living under constant trauma,” Mate told Al Jazeera.
Mate, who is Jewish and survived living under Nazi occupation as an infant, said that while Zionism has been one response to the Holocaust, another is that “never again” should be “a slogan for universal understanding”.
“From my point of view, the most pro-Jewish thing that you can do is to stand up against this occupation because ultimately, it’s not good for anybody,” he said.
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