Read Letter from Larry Shapiro, Calgary, to the APA in response to objections to formation of a Jewish branch, despite there being others in the Coalition of National, Racial & Ethnic Psychological...

Feb. 16, 2026

Wendi S. Williams, PhD, President of the American Psychological Association

Dear Dr. Williams,

It has come to my attention that the Coalition of National, Racial and Ethnic Psychological Associations have announced their opposition to the establishment of a Jewish branch because Jews have white skin and whites are the colonizers, slaveholders and in the case of Jews, slum landlords.

I can assure the American Psychological Association that not a single Jewish psychologist is a slum landlord, they don't earn enough to amass real estate, nor have they or any of their ancestors owned slaves. They are, however, related to Jews who were subjected to grisly medical experiments without anaesthesia by Dr, Josef Mengele in Auschwitz, and some have female relatives in Israel who had their breasts sliced off for soccer practice by Hamas "freedom fighters". So my guess is that if any group of psychologists deserves, needs an association of like-minded contemporaries, it would be the Jews.

Speaking of Mengele, one of the first things the Hitler regime, AKA the Third Reich, did in its effort to dehumanize Jews was to disband the German Jewish Psychological Association. Please tell me that the decision by the Coalition of National, Racial and Ethnic Psychological Associations was not inspired by Nazi Germany, and if it was, you have a fascism problem on your hands.

Respectfully yours,

Lawrence Shapiro, Calgary, Alberta Canada