In Community

Georgetown Healing Arts’ Letter To Community Regarding The War In Palestine/Israel

Dear Community,

We write to you with hearts and souls laden with grief over the loss of so many lives inPalestine/Israel. We hold with you the pain, terror, and devastation rippling through all of our communities, especially Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities all over the world.

As healers and humans living in commitment to anti-oppressive values, we know that our safety and liberation are bound up together — that safety for some that necessitates the subjugation of others is not true safety. Although we do not know what it is like to live as a Palestinian or an Israeli, we know our voices matter. For all struggles for freedom and justice, silence is implicit support of terror and violence.

We join with the choir of voices here in Seattle, in the US and throughout the world who call for an end to the violence in Gaza, a ceasefire, an end to the US funding of Israeli’s military, the immediate release of Israeli hostages, and true Palestinian land rights and liberation.

We also know that challenging the Zionist and colonial policies of the Israeli government is aligned with the Jewish tradition to question, resist oppression and hold all life sacred. We honor and heed the history and current realities of antisemitism as we honor and value the dignity and sovereignty of the Palestinian people.

As healers, we commit to holding this in our work. Staying close to our clients’ experience and supporting them in their own self-discovery, truth and freedom – without agenda – does not mean being a blank slate. In fact, our oldest therapeutic traditions teach us to brave – and bring humanity to – the hidden, silenced or forbidden places of social dominance.

Join us in resisting sides, resisting war and resisting US and Israeli Empire. Join the large movement of Jewish people and Palestinian people calling for humanity and safety for all people. Bring your voice, heart and hands to peace.

We grieve with you. And we remind ourselves that we are all inextricably connected.

“Oh we are not alone. Oh we are not alone. We are all one part (greta flowers, 2023).”

With love and hope for peace,

Georgetown Healing Arts