Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, and advocates for Palestinians' rights to health and dignity. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2002.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.
MAP History
Between 16 and 18 September 1982, Lebanese Phalangist militants entered the Beirut refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, and killed and injured hundreds of unarmed Palestinian and other civilians inside. The camp’s residents were defenceless.
The Israeli army, who had invaded Lebanon earlier that year and had surrounded the camp, had full knowledge of what was taking place inside, yet they never intervened. Instead, they illuminated the camp throughout the night by flares launched into the sky from helicopters and mortars.
Working in a hospital inside the camp at the time was a young orthopaedic surgeon from London, Dr Swee Chai Ang. Refusing to leave the hospital, Dr Ang worked tirelessly to save the injured and protect her patients during the massacre.
On her return to London, Dr Ang joined with fellow medical professionals and humanitarians to establish Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), in order to send doctors and nurses to work in the Palestinian refugee camps and provide frontline care.
MAP today
Since then, MAP has been working with Palestinian communities, to deliver locally-led health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement.
Today we have offices in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Lebanon and London. With our extensive local knowledge and experience, we work closely with communities, hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers to coordinate care and medical aid even where there are severe restrictions on access.
MAP provides immediate medical aid to those in need at times of crisis, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.
We are also committed to speaking out against injustices that prevent Palestinians from fully enjoying their rights to health and dignity, and campaign to ensure the voices of Palestinians impacted by occupation, displacement and conflict are heard at the highest levels.
Mutual aid for Palestine and Gaza: https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donation-details/484 
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Dear diary, today I owned my dad with facts & logic at the breakfast table.
He was saying "Yeah the attacks on Palestinian civilians are bad, everyone thinks that, but you have to consider what lead up to it" and when I said "Are you talking about the last 50 years or just the last week" he had no answer and the discussion ended.
with the way liberals are talking about palestine right now i don’t really find it hard to see how the holocaust happened, never has the “scratch a liberal…” saying been more true
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I used to think I believed in "death to Amerikkka, unlimited genocide on the first world" but with each passing day I believe it more and more, to a level I never would have thought possible.
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holy fuck stop reminding me
I'm starting ketamine therapy for PTSD this week . Really looking forward to it.
I'm very tired of not being ok but I have faith that there are solutions out there. Within myself, by connecting or getting help from others and in nature (medicine or psychedelics etc)
I'm starting ketamine soon too (for depression). God I hope it works. I need something. I am really, really not doing okay
The odds are in your favor. Lots of people report very good results.
I did it a few years back. I'd suggest bringing some mellow albums to listen too, and enjoy the experience. I listened to The Wall during one of my appointments.
Definitely have someone to drive you home. When the K wore off my mind felt sharp but my body was responding like i was drunk for a few hours after. Most of the time i went home and napped the rest of the day after.
Thank you for the suggestions. Sounds like a good idea, I'm looking forward to it.
Did it help you in the mid or long term?
Betterhelp is offering six months of free fake therapy to zionists traumatized by zionism.
I may be getting another one this week, Mom applied for two and it seems like they’re both gonna go through
I honestly believe that libs are being especially hyperbolic because they need to resolve the cognitive dissonance in supporting both Ukraine and Israel.
Notice how you haven't heard the phrases "territorial integrity" or "sovereignty". They know they have no argument and that their current logic contradicts past statements, so they hit the racism button and say ridiculous shit.
Imagine the reaction from the west if it were Russia doing a siege on Kiev.
Just had an argument about Israel-Palestine with my parents that was essentially them being like “yeah I agree 100 Palestinians will be killed for every 1 Israeli but that’s not an asymmetrical relationship because (??? They just insisted it wasn’t asymmetrical and refused to interrogate that point even though I pushed on it) and it’s actually fine to indiscriminately bomb in retaliation but we totally agree that the situation in Gaza and the West Bank is bad don’t worry but also no one’s calling for the eradication of the Palestinian people but also we are vehemently against ending the bombing campaign and ooh the Arab nations don’t want to take Palestinian refugees and we would be happy to offload them there (WHAT THE FUCK DAD)” and ended with me, after constantly being overridden by them, losing my cool and telling them to shut up, to which my mom replied “Fuck you, don’t fucking talk to me like that, you’re siding with people who hate us”
Packed up and decided to spend the rest of my fall break in my dorm and my mom was like “ok, sorry you’re mad at me
” as I leftI’m genuinely considering not visiting them on weekends anymore
simply cut toxic people out of your life, regardless of whether you're related to them
??? They just insisted it wasn’t asymmetrical and refused to interrogate that point even though I pushed on it
Basically same with my folks who keep doing an all lives matter “i hate to see anyone of any ethnicity suffer” routine
Won’t answer when pushed bc then they’d have to admit out loud that they’re doing a
My mom can’t post a picture of the family in Tel Aviv from 4 years ago under #StandWithIsrael because I was being a little rascal and refused to keep taking photos so they all look bad
I wish more people could understand that "terrorism" as a word is just a political tool to de-legitimize the violence of undesirables and legitimize the violence of the people killing and oppressing them.
I'm so fucking sick of hearing dipshits just call Hamas' actions "terrorism" like that's the beginning and end of the story.
Doctors Without Borders is also a solid org for medical help.
If you rate ngos based on how often NATO slaughters them with jdams MSF is at the top.
I'm not going to help them build schools or hospitals, that shits gay, but I can get them some vape carts
I've been feeling a lot more emotional lately. Tearing up listening to music, finding it easier to cry. It's great. I prefer it so much more than the detachment I had felt for a couple of years before.
Its realeasing the internalized pain and it's healthy and ok. So much shit we can't be expected to keep it bottled inside.
For sure. For a long time I was holding back a ton through irony and always used it as a defensive layer. But I've been letting go of that. Some time ago I read a really nice quote here, "Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its own cage" in reference to how fascists often thrive off of ironic detachment. Surpassing that, and embracing that as humans we are affected by situations around us that will make us feel strongly, has helped me a lot.
Someone posted a video of some Jewish South Africans saying that they stand with Palestine the other day and I dropped some tears. It felt real good to feel stuff.
aid for Palestinians?
