They Can Stand Up to FIFA, But They Can’t Stand Up for the Palestinians or for World Peace
On FIFA, Palestine, and what twenty-seven years in a therapy room teaches you about naming what's actually happening
Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays
I write about Israel’s settler-colonialism in Palestine, and worsening genocide. I studied sociology, politics and economics, but I write mostly with my psychotherapist hat on. (Comments defending or minimising genocide will be removed).
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Palestine Is Teaching My Profession Something It Doesn't Want to Learn
On Palestinian group therapy, and why it might be showing the rest of my profession where it needs to go
Genocide: We’ve always known. We’ve always let it happen.
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Webinar: Israeli society — The social psychology of indoctrination, settler-colonialism and genocide
Sunday, 26th July 2026 7pm [UK]
Expanding Outward, Collapsing Inward (Part 2)
Israeli Jews have no reason to be ‘shocked’ — The demise of their ‘democracy’ is the logical conclusion of their settler-colonial rule
Your God Does Not Forgive You and Neither Do We
(More dirty laundry)
Expanding Outward, Collapsing Inward — The Zionist Project Is Israel’s Undoing
And that’s a good thing
Hannah Arendt Warned Us — How Israel Normalises Sadism in the Service of Its Settler Colonial Machine
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It's Not ‘Irrational'. It's Settler-Colonial.
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Book Club On Palestine — Mid-Summer 'Meet the Author' Series
Join Us: Book Club on Palestine — Mid Summer Series
Israel Didn't Go Wrong. Israel Itself Is What's Wrong
Buying Time for Israel: On Omer Bartov's Liberal Zionism and Colonial Blindness
'For All Mankind': A Mirror We Can't Afford to Look Away From
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Don’t Vote Reform. We Are One People And We Depend On Each Other.
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Liberation From Egypt, Genocide in Canaan
You Cannot Repurpose or Whitewash a Settler-Colonial Identity Narrative
Feelings Can Trigger A Revolution, But Only Vision Can Build Something New.
(Afterword to ‘We Were Built For Better Than This’)
We Were Built for Better Than This
Survivalism built our civilisation. It is now destroying us.
Children and Young People Are Being Harmed. Politicians Choose to Look Elsewhere.
From Gaza to our own doorstep: The same logic, and children are always paying the price.
See Them
What Palestinian photographers show us. And what Israeli officials would rather we saw instead.
Zionism Was Always Genocidal: On What Even Anti-Zionists Miss
The Limits of Avi Shlaim's Anti-Zionism
Survivalism Is Making Us Suffer
The problem isn’t our capability. It’s the paradigm we live by that we need to change.