No Zionists, No Racists and No Ethno-Supremacists Welcome Here; Dogs Allowed

Zionists Crying to the Teacher

By now I am quite used to Zionists crying online about my posts and comments and pursuing their usual behaviours of going running to the teacher - whomever they think that teacher is.

Could it be the university you went to? Your employer? Your professional affiliation? Grasping at anything in order to try to intimidate you and shut you down, they are desperate to impact your earnings and teach you a spiteful lesson.

Rather than replying to individual Zionists which is a waste of my time, I will explain here why your threats are no more than light entertainment for me. Not only this, but why I can work as a therapist, hold my “political” stance, express myself in the way unique to my style – and there is not a thing you can do about it.

So keep crying - until you cry yourself all the way to sleep.

Therapy, Political Positions and Social Media

An old lady, somewhere in her eighties perhaps, was seen holding a placard at a recent Palestine protest stating: “This is the first protest I have been to in my life”. It was a very significant message, in that people who were formerly not only completely apolitical by their own admission but had never felt the need to go out into the streets to protest -now feel the need to do so.

Holding a position with regards to the worst manmade inflicted humanitarian catastrophe of our lifetimes, and one of the worst in the world’s history – is not “being too political”, but in fact, doing what is utterly imperative for all of us to be doing at this time.

Part of that process involves calling out the perpetrators and their supporters, because what is happening goes beyond personal politics, personal preferences and the need to maintain neutrality; it is so momentous, it should reach into every corner of our lives, and touch with urgency, every single fibre of our humanitarian impulse, our very being.

We live now in a time where we are being ruled by utter frauds. “Israel”, the US and Trump have unravelled the post-World War Two global order by subverting laws, silencing and brutalizing people who criticize “Israel’s” ongoing genocide and discarding all the legal frameworks constructed and formalized to keep the world’s leaders and institutions accountable on the world stage.

They have torn up the “rule book” to tell us that there are no laws, no measures to keep people from committing mass murder, starving a population to death; “war crimes” means nothing when it comes to the civilian populations of the global south being massacred by the Jewish supremacist state of “Israel” and its co-option of the Imperialist machine.

In the face of all this, am I going to refrain from speaking out, documenting human rights abuses and describing in psychological terms, my – and many other notable individuals’ – perception of the collective pathologies underlying these mass, sociopathic behaviours? The answer is a resounding NO.

Malpractice within Therapy

Let me explain, to those bandying about terms that they have a poor understanding of because they think they sound vaguely threatening. Malpractice relates to behaviours that specifically affect the patient/client in question.

The way these can be breached via social media is by exposing patient/client details that are personal and confidential. It is called breaking confidentiality and is a serious matter. In terms of holding political views and expressing these, it depends on the case in question. Malpractice can be a hard case to prove, even if a therapist posted details of a client on social media – let alone their views on the current genocide.

But please do feel free to give it a go if you like.

Again, speaking about the genocide unfolding, and being inflicted by “Israel” through multiple means, is not being “too” political, it is not breaching any ethical guidelines and it is in fact, incumbent on me as a humanitarian to do so.

Not only will I continue to do so but I will continue to use psychological terminology to describe what I see on a collective level, because that is one of my main areas of expertise.

Professional Behaviours and Patient/Client Concern

The question of what constitutes “professional” behaviour is partly objective and partly down to personal interpretation, in a fast shifting therapeutic landscape where therapists and coaches can be found on social media as well as through other means of advertising (like myself) and come from so many different professional groundings and affiliations.

It is a question that seems partly redundant in the face of the behaviours we are seeing every day, from lawyers, doctors, psychotherapists and other professionals of a Zionist persuasion, as well as politicians and judges on the world stage.

But it is still an important question.

Is your client’s safety and wellbeing paramount? Are you crossing any red lines? We cannot all fall to the level of Zionist practitioners, where I see supposed psychology/health professionals spewing racist comments online calling for harm to Arab and Muslim women, while claiming to help people with psychological trauma.

As a humanitarian, I can categorically say that these things are critical to me and I am well aware of my responsibilities towards my clients; but if it is my personal style of expression you don’t like, then you can “do one”.

(Therapists and coaches are human too, and we should be relatable to our clients rather than maintaining a stance as detached, all-knowing, omnipotent practitioner, who watches all with an impassive silence. Therapy evolves, and like any area of human endeavour, it evolves because people break paradigms and try new approaches, within the frameworks of the ethics that we can all agree upon - the patient/client well-being).

Anti-racism and Client Satisfaction

Where do we start? With the huge Palestine flag outside my consulting room? Or the Palestine art on my walls, including one of the children of the resistance? Or maybe with the keffiyeh that I wear almost everywhere. Or the clients who return repeatedly to therapy, and recommend their friends and colleagues?

Client satisfaction and life progress is paramount and a key criterion for me as a therapist. My success in this area is what keeps clients returning. I do not care what you think about this; your opinion is irrelevant, and your amateur theatrics are foolish and puerile.

In wearing and displaying these symbols, I am expressing my allegiance to humanitarian principles. Zionists are right – wearing a keffiyeh or watermelon or Palestine flag runs much deeper than being just pro-Palestine. It means so much more.

It means that you are on the right side of history, humanity and honour. It means you have principles and are not afraid to show this. Anyone who sees this as “too political” is not a client for me. You will just have to “suck it up” as they say.

Such signs were notoriously displayed by some British boarding houses in the 1950s

No Zionists

It should by now be abundantly clear not only that I do not welcome nor accept Zionists as clients, but that there are a number of points at which they will be put off from selecting me as a therapist – and this is exactly how I wish it to be (not least is my Muslim name, a sufficient deterrent for anti-Muslim racists).

I am not comfortable treating or dealing with extreme racist and hateful clients in just the same way that I (and most other therapists, and even psychiatrists, I know) do not accept obvious narcissists as clients/patients.

I have absolutely no scruples in saying this, and I know that every therapist uses their discretion to decide, on the basis of many factors, who they are comfortable working with.

A General Note for Pro-Palestinians in Other Professions

Know that Zionists are cowards. Know that they will comb your profile for professional affiliations and try to dox you, get you in trouble, get you fired. I find women like Dr Rahmeh Aladwan very inspirational, a woman who refuses to be cowed by the vicious trolling and bullying of Zionists, and who has been smeared by publications like the Jewish Chronicle as well as receiving death threats.

There is nothing Zionists hate more than a person who refuses to be intimidated; there is nothing a bully hates more than someone who isn’t scared by them. Do not be intimidated by them. Weak people need to work in packs like this.

Stand strong, because only then will we be able to change these attitudes and challenge this entitlement, where Zionists pretend to institute the principles of ethics, and co-opt them to their own agenda, when they themselves care nothing of ethics or honesty or fairness - if they did they wouldn’t be Zionists.

Parting Words

I work in my own private practice, I have many clients and I have many returning clients. Since October 2022, because I have been more present on social media as a therapist who works in particular with women of non-Western cultures, I have had even more clients.

Zionists foaming, fermenting and ultimately festering in my comments often help publicity, which brings more clients. Therapy is just one income stream for me, I do it more for fulfilment – but of the therapy I do, around 30-40% of my income goes to Palestinian causes. Go figure.

So in conclusion, nothing you say or do will impact me at all. You can try all you like – you can throw around vaguely legalistic sounding words, you can pretend to care about ethics, you can act all self-righteous and pretend to yourself that you have some kind of elevated moral status. And although it will all be in vain, if you really want to persist – then bring it on.