Relishing Genocide - understanding Jewish/Israeli Psychology 📅 March 18th 📍Arc, 27 Broad Streat BS1 2HG - Ground Floor ⏰19:00-21:00 Doors open at 18:30 🎟️ £5 on entry ABOUT: Avigail Abarbanel considers why most of Jewish/Israeli society has embraced the utter destruction of Gaza with such undisguised enthusiasm. Settler-colonialism is, by its nature, genocidal – but no one was prepared for the evident glee with which Israel’s citizen army set about destroying Gazan society after 7 October 2023. How do we account for this?  Avigail Abarbanel was born in Tel Aviv and grew up in ‘downtown’ Israel. She had a ‘very Zionist’ education and served in the IDF. She renounced her Israeli citizenship at the start of the Second Intifada, ‘motivated by a feeling of rebellion, indignation and anger mixed in with a lot of self-doubt’. Reading Avi Shlaim’s 1999 book The Iron Wall persuaded her ‘that everything I was taught and believed to be true was in fact a lie’. She now lives in the Scottish Highlands, where she has a private practice as a psychotherapist. She blogs on Substack as Fully Human. Her many books include Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal stories of Jewish peace activists (2011)