Actions – Silence is a Crime https://silenceisacrime.org Silence is a Crime - Professional Ethics Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:17:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://silenceisacrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-לוגו-הפגנה-לוגו-32x32.png Actions – Silence is a Crime https://silenceisacrime.org 32 32 An Urgent Appeal – Silence is a Crime https://silenceisacrime.org/en/appeal-2/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:14:12 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=525 Days of severe deterioration on all fronts – oppression, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, all backed by the government, the military, the police, and the silent majority. Deeply shaken and appalled, we have chosen to turn to the international community with an urgent call to action. Please help us spread the word. The ‘Silence is a Crime’ Forum.

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]]> Webinar – Silence or Resistance During Wartime – The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Anti-War Activism. https://silenceisacrime.org/en/webinar_en/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:57:55 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=763 Read more]]> The “Silence is a Crime” forum, in collaboration with the “It’s Time” coalition, is pleased to invite you to register for the webinar: Silence or Resistance During Wartime – The Role of Mental Health Professionals in Anti-War Activism. The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 26th, between 12:00-13:30, with the participation of forum members. To register for the webinar…

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]]> Life Itself – Health, Trauma, and Treatment During Wartime https://silenceisacrime.org/en/panel_en/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:45:08 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=743 Read more]]> You are invited to register for a panel concerning health, trauma, and treatment during wartime, organized by the Peace Partnership, in which we are partners as a forum. In the panel, we will present, alongside other speakers, our ethical and professional perspective on living in the shadow of continuous, paralyzing, and silencing trauma. The webinar will take place on Monday…

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]]> An Email of Soul-Searching to the Professional Unions https://silenceisacrime.org/en/introspection_en/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:01:57 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=565 Read more]]> In a few days, we will enter Yom Kippur, a day traditionally devoted to soul-searching. In our professional soul-searching, we ask whether, as caregivers in such a time—when the violence enacted by the society we live in reaches the most severe dimensions imaginable—we are fulfilling our professional role? Can we continue to seclude ourselves in treatment rooms, separating the psychological from…

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]]> An urgent ethical appeal from psychologists in Israel https://silenceisacrime.org/en/appeal/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:42:18 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=325 Read more]]> To the international psychological community and the esteemed professional organizations, including the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA): We, a group of psychologists from Israel, issue this urgent ethical appeal, in the face of the unprecedented atrocities…

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]]> Action for September 1st – An Appeal to the Educational Psychological Services https://silenceisacrime.org/en/shapach_en/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:37:22 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=582 Read more]]> Today, on the occasion of the opening of the school year, we placed letters in Educational Psychological Services (EPS) centers across the country, with a clear message: We, as mental health and welfare professionals, cannot remain silent in the face of a reality of continuous harm to children and the education system in Gaza. While in the public discourse there is silencing, fear…

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]]> An Appeal to the Directors of Educational Psychological Services https://silenceisacrime.org/en/eduletter_en/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:44:42 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=591 Read more]]> 1.9.2025 To: Directors, Managers, and Staff of the Educational Psychological Services Subject: Heavy ethical questions at the start of the school year We begin the school year with a very heavy heart as human beings, and with heavy ethical questions as mental health and welfare professionals. On the one hand, we wish our children a fruitful and safe year with a continuous setting…

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]]> Downloads https://silenceisacrime.org/en/downloads_en/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:23:38 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=633 Read more]]> You can express solidarity with the notion that “Silence is a Crime” by changing your profile pictures on social networks. For this purpose, two files are attached – one for a profile picture (on WhatsApp, Facebook, etc.) and the second for a cover picture. You can download the pictures to your device by right-clicking (or long-pressing the picture on a mobile phone) and saving the image to your…

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]]> Action by Mental Health and Welfare Professionals https://silenceisacrime.org/en/histadrut_en/ Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:21:34 +0000 https://silenceisacrime.org/?p=625 Read more]]> On the steps of the Histadrut, over 100 mental health and welfare professionals stood in a screaming and painful silence. We appeal to the organizations that represent us – listen to the voice of our conscience and professional ethics – call for an end to the genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity being committed in our name against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

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