UK counselling body apologises for dropping article about Jewish trauma

Police patrol the streets in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, to reassure the local Jewish community a week after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) has apologised for dropping an article about Jewish trauma resulting from Hamas’s assault on Israel on 7 October from its magazine over “a concern around sensitivities”.

The article was written by Dr Sandi Mann, a regular columnist for the association’s journal, Counselling at Work, for the past 10 years. She said the BACP’s apology was an “important victory against a trend for de-platforming the Jewish experience”.