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– David Harrop is an independent UK-registered social worker and co-founder of Palestine UK Social Work Network (PALUK) in 2011. Contact the author at his address email: harrop_david@yahoo.co.uk.  He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.

Resistance, Music, and Existence under Occupation

August 26, 2023

By David Harrop On my first night in Palestine in Nablus in 2011, I sat transfixed as I watched a Dabke troupe of Palestinian youth leap and dance with pride in their culture and defiance […]

The Lone Traveler: Walking as an Act of Palestinian Solidarity

May 24, 2023

By David Harrop Mick, a retired UK social worker, has embarked on his solo 3500 km trek as an act of Palestinian solidarity. He has been a long-time supporter of liberation from oppression and of […]

The Role of Volunteerism in Developing Palestinian Leadership Potential

March 23, 2023

By David Harrop The Durham University Palestine Education Trust (DPET) provides annual scholarships for up to four exceptional Palestinian students and provides a platform for the development of abiding international academic links. Having been a […]

The Significance of Principles in the Struggle for Liberation

February 9, 2023

By David Harrop Through meeting and talking to Palestinian social work colleagues it seems that for many, the coming together of communities during the first intifada (1987-93) represented a formative professional experience. Whilst under extreme […]

Palestinian Social Work with Bedouin Communities and the Need for Geopolitical Awareness

January 4, 2023

By David Harrop “Do you know why the Bedouin are called the black goats? Like the black goats they are stubborn and go where they want, and they do their own thing” – (Z., Bedouin […]

No Safe Space for Palestinians Living in Refugee Camps

December 16, 2022

By David Harrop “A basic human requirement is the need to dwell, and so to inhabit a place connecting ourselves to a place on the planet where we belong, and which belongs to us.”  – […]

Social Workers in Palestine: Solidarity, A Verb or a Noun?

October 12, 2022

By David Harrop I recently received this e-mail from the Palestinian Union of Social Workers and Psychologists (PUSWP): “We received with great sorrow the news of the martyrdom of the social worker, Muhammad Ali Abu […]

The Cherry Orchard: 350 Actors of Resistance

September 1, 2022

By David Harrop “Eat your homeland’s lolium, but not the crusader’s wheat” (Traditional Palestinian saying)  We were wrapping up the interview and standing under the monumental key atop the archway into the Aida refugee camp […]

The Martyr Quasi Hamamra and the Need for Trauma-Informed Social Work in Palestine

July 12, 2022

By David Harrop Quasi Hamamra, a 16-year-old boy from the Bethlehem village of Husan, had been shot dead by an Israeli military soldier 4 days previously, and as such he was proclaimed a martyr by […]

More Than a Game

Palestinian sports journalist Bassil Mikdadi unpacks the role of football as a symbol of resistance and survival under Israeli occupation.

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