HHS Launches Civil Rights Probe into American Psychological Association Over Rampant Antisemitism

Insane. The only mental illness here is the rabid Jew hatred of the left.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services opened an investigation into the the largest professional organization for mental health professionals, the American Psychological Association, after a August 2025 complaint alleging antisemitism and anti-Israel bias in its programs and events. Critics point to APA-sponsored courses on ‘Decolonizing Therapy’ that they say pathologize Zionism and promote the Palestinian liberation struggle in clinical practice, plus unaddressed harassment of Jewish members since the October 7, 2023, attacks. The APA has condemned antisemitism in resolutions and pledged inclusive environments, but faces risks to its federal funding if violations of civil rights laws are found.

Jew-hatred with a license.

According to the APA, supporting Israel a mental illness but changing from male to female or vice versa is mentally stable.

The US Department of Health and Human Services is investigating the American Psychological Association after increasing complaints of antisemitism within the organization.

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HHS to investigate American Psychological Association over alleged Jew-hatred, anti-Israel bias

By: Jewish News Syndicate, June 17, 2026:

The US Department of Health and Human Services is investigating the American Psychological Association following allegations of antisemitic discrimination, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law announced on Wednesday.

The Brandeis Center filed a complaint with HHS on Aug. 8, 2025, alleging that the APA has “become one of the worst purveyors of antisemitism and extremist ideology in healthcare.” The complaint states that the association, which has more than 172,000 members, receives millions of dollars in federal funding annually.

The complaint alleges that Jewish and Israeli current and former APA members reported that the association promoted “Decolonizing Therapy,” which treats Zionism as a mental illness. Harris said the association sponsors continuing education courses that psychologists are required to take to maintain their licenses, and states entrust it with accrediting those courses.

“You have anti-Israel activist psychologists teaching courses about ‘psychic militancy’ and teaching about how to incorporate the ‘resistance’ or the ‘Palestinian liberation struggle’ into the clinical practice of mental health care,” Harris told JNS. She added that these teachers also use mental health terminology, like calling Zionists “psychotic,” that “advances political activism that is dangerous to Americans, but particularly Jewish Americans.”

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The complaint also alleges that the association’s conferences have featured sessions promoting “Decolonizing Therapy” and portraying the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel as attacks on military targets. It further cites messages sent by association members through listservs that “glorify Hamas, call for boycotts of Israel, compare Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto and pray for Israel’s destruction.”

Harris told JNS that HHS informed the Brandeis Center that, as a result of the complaint, it is investigating whether the association is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which extends Title VI to federally funded health care programs.

“Our hope is that HHS will ensure that if APA is going to continue to be a recipient of federal funds, that it comes into compliance with its obligations under the federal civil rights law, that it’s not discriminating against its Jewish members, that it’s not promoting discrimination of Jews within the broader mental health profession,” she told JNS.