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Earlier this month, psychiatrist of the Beele Van der Kolk, the pioneer in the research of injuries, caused indignation when he conducted a trauma workshop in omega -Institute of holistic research, retreat to Reinebek, New York, comparing Israelis with “fascist” and bewildered orthodox. The play “Above” over “over” over “over” play “.
A few weeks later, he still refuses Jewish, medical and trauma, while the omega institute apologizes to the participants “inappropriate and inappropriate and Van der Kolk Anti -Semitic comments“And Van der Kalk shared with me e -mail, he sent the Omega Institute after initially apologized for his comments, and now threatened to sue the slander for defamation for what he called his comments.
This story would just be another unwavering saga of academic grace, but that’s much more. This is a careful fairy tale about how even the most famous voices in psychology and therapeutic spheres can become ideologically enthusiastic and tolerate blind spots so deep that they leave the Jewish injury to the invisible, incorrect characteristics or invalid in moments of the greatest vulnerability.
Dr. Beetle Van der Kalk speaks at a press conference with supporters of the company “So at 4” in front of the State House of Massachusetts. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) (John Explansky/Boston Globe)
Known on a global scale to write “New York Times Best-septed Book of 2014”, “The Body retains the score”, and for its pioneer studies PTSD with a psychiatrist Judith Herman, Van der Kolk, has long been regarded as authority on traumatic studies, expanding our understanding of those who survived because of the cruelty of children and violence in the family. I know him personally for decades, taught his work to students at the University of Mount in Los -Angeles, where I was a professor, and hosted him in the Los -Andeles, where he made parts of his book that was engaged in my dining room.
Van der Kolk should know how to disassemble the injury carried by the Jews. It grew up in the Nazi Netherlands, where the Dutch institution quickly complied with Nazi orders that sent 75% of the Dutch Jews to death, the highest in all Western Europe.
Soon forward before the beginning of August, when Van der Kolk and his wife Licha Skai conducted a workshop “Trauma, Memory and Restore” at the Omega Institute.
According to the publication on social media on August 7, which became viral, “Injured by an expert in injuries,” “ Alice Portnoye, the injury coach and the participant of the seminar, said that Van der Kolk compared Israelis with “Nazis”, saying, “What Israel is doing in Gaza is what the Nazis did.”
Irony fate, in OP-KE, published last year OldWang der Kolk and psychologist Jessica Stern, wrote that “both sides called other” Nazis “,” noting that it was “a degumanization language”.
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Portny said that Van der Kalk also neglected Orthodox Jews, saying that they preferred a “tribe” over “truth”. She quotes him, saying that for the Orthodox Jews “it is more important to be part of their tribe (than) to tell the truth about what is happening in society.”
By August 13 the mail became viral, amplified From the Instagram account, anti -Semitism physicians, which published Van der Kalk, acknowledging that the comparison of Israelis with the Nazis was “free, offensive, inaccurate and completely unnecessary comment.”
The Institute of Omega published an apology, Saying that it does not invite Van der Kolk to teach any seminars out of “inappropriate and anti -Semitic comments”.
A few days ago, I wrote Van der Kolk and I was disappointed, learning that the spirit of his forgiveness was short -lived. He shared his wife’s e -mail, and he sent an Omega Institute official: “Feel free to share.”
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On the network of three letters found here for the first time, Sky was sent by Karen Hornefer-Gienter, Senior Programming Director at the Omega Institute, an electronic message on August 15, taking a question with the apology of the omega institute, calling it “slander.”
It closed with the threat: “It is timidly slander, and we will have to address the courts if this statement is not corrected.”
A few minutes later, Van der Kolk replied, saying, “Yes, it really slanders and outrageous. What anti -Semitic statement do you mean?”
He asked, “Will we contact our lawyers or you want to agree on a corrective statement?”
After a while, Van der Kalk twice exceeded his unbearable and sent a new Hornefer-Gentar statement to his publication, saying that his “short comment” about Israel had been agreed with the statements of the world leaders “who strongly condemned Israeli actions.”
He asked, “Are all these people anti -Semites?”
I would like me to be surprised by the disdainful comments of Van der Kolk to Israeli Jews, and how his defense and subsequent apologies fell apart, but I don’t.
At the end of 2023, when I launched a non -profit organization, Israel’s initiativeTo treat those who survived with the brutal massive mass on October 7, I addressed support colleagues. Van der Kolk replied with a sarcastic note: “Happy to help. What are you doing for families with 27,000 people in gas who were killed …?”
We have a problem of anti -Semitism in the so -called therapeutic community.
The message was understood: he would not support me and asked about the ethics of the Israelis’s help if I did not help the Palestinians simultaneously. Ironically, I treated the Palestinians before the injuries long before October 7, though never had never passed the paths from Van der Kolk.
We have a problem of anti -Semitism in the so -called therapeutic community. Earlier this year, 3625 mental health specialists – under banners – psychologists against anti -Semitism – sent Letter For the leaders of the American Psychological Association, or APA, which require action against anti -Semitic positions, undesirable remarks of the divisions and organizational silence about the attacks on October 7 and the record number of anti -Semitism faced by the Jews. Their call was not for special treatment, but to admit that the prejudice under the injury undermines both ethical standards and the healing process itself. Res. Richie Torres, Dn.Y., questionna worker The open letter’s signatories, warning that the scientific institution had very legitimacy of APA.
Leading figures, such as Matte, a celebrity doctor and the most sold author of five books, aggravated this climate of anti-Semitism, denying evidence of systematic sexual abuse on October 7, Hamas, which he never retreated. Later his requirement refuted Dinah project, The independent team of international lawyers and experts on gender violence, which have led the most complete investigation to today’s sexual abuse on October 7 and concluded that the rape was systematic and intentional. In advertising Video for AJ+ The platform, directed by al -Jazyr Qatar, Mattar said that anti -Semitism accusations are often “completely cynical use of a Jewish trauma to justify the Palestinian trauma”, the framing that he characterizes as a weapon of Jewish injury to be silent criticism.
In Texas, about 700 therapists signed Letter Against anti -Semitism after Jewish colleagues reported prejudice in curriculum and peer groups. In Chicago therapists with Jewish sounds were blacklist From the lists of direction in accordance with the presumption, they must be Zionists, causing an investigation into state ethics.
Van der Kolk’s remarks emphasize a deeper shift in this area: politicization of injury. Increasingly, injuries are filtered through ideological lenses, and suffering is weighed against political loyalty. As part of this hierarchy, Jewish injury is steadily depreciated.
Imagine when Van der Kalk told black patients that they refused therapy because “it is more important to be part of their tribe (than) to tell the truth about what is happening in society.” Either when he stood before Chinese students and without nuances stated that the Chinese were “Nazis”. The resist would be direct and preferred.
However, when the same logic applies to Jews, it is allowed – even in professional seminars where people are looking for healing. This failure of the wound he has inflicted is not a minor gap. He exposes how the ideological framework is traced in the care of the injury, blinding even the most perfect practitioners and deepening the same injuries they claim for treatment.
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Van der Kolk’s remarks reveal more than personal prejudice. They reveal how even leaders in the care of injuries can absorb degumanization stories that Israelis see and erase Jewish suffering. As a pioneer psychiatrist who instructed to teach others how to treat the injury, his failure to comply with this distortion is more than disappointing. This undermines its authority as a sorcerer.
When the ideology replaces the clinical clarity, the basis, designed to check and cure the survivor becomes a tool of harm, leaving a Jewish injury with this unprecedented and unprecedented war.
Like Judy Levental, Psychotherapist and Daughter Holocaust survivor. rememberAfter leaving the traumatization of the workshop, which Van der Kolk led to an injury: “My body retained the score.”