We've launched a monthly Substack. Our first dispatch covers our latest research on the unfolding genocide in Gaza, an overlooked colonial massacre in 19th c. Namibia, and a deadly attack on antifascists in Portland, Oregon. Read it here: forensicarchitecture.substack.com/p/genocide-in-…

Writing this week in London Review of Books, Forensic Architecture director Eyal Weizman explores the links between atrocities in West Africa in the early 20th Century and present-day Gaza, highlighting the calls of the Nama and Ovaherero people to recognise these continuities lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

In a new investigation, Goldsmiths-based Forensic Architecture has worked with descendants of survivors to produce a visual reconstruction of the site of the 1893 massacre of the Witbooi Nama in present-day Namibia by German colonial forces twitter.com/ForensicArchi/…

For years, Forensic Architecture has exposed state crimes against civilians, nature, and humanity. This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar meets FA’s director Eyal Weizman. novaramedia.com/2024/04/21/thi…

Some unscrupulous agent has uploaded a PDF of the sold-out “Conflict Shoreline”, in which eyal weizman of Forensic Architecture & photographer Fazal Sheikh explore the Negev Desert in Israel as a case study for the entanglement of climate change & colonization.
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‘The government’s nationalisation of memory meant that the “Ovaherero and Nama genocide” became known anachronistically as the “Namibian genocide”.’

eyal weizman reports from Namibia: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

The hitjobs on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian continue. Here an 🇮🇱 tv 'report' trundles through her work, including the Journal of Genocide Research forum on her book on the unchilding of children to allege that she relies only on interviews with children who lie and are actually terrorists 1/

Governments always lie, but how can we catch them in the act?

Ash Sarkar talks to eyal weizman

Premiering now novara.media/EyalWeizman

Superb piece by eyal weizman in the latest London Review of Books. Especially sharp on the colonial links between two German genocides.

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➡️eyal weizman writes for London Review of Books connecting three genocides: Gaza, Namibia and the Holocaust. Weizman's department, Visual Cultures, is one of eleven affected departments under threat of redundancies at Goldsmiths.
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At dawn today, the Israeli military dropped new leaflets in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, urging residents NOT to return to northern Gaza.

Despite six months of forced displacement, Palestinians are still barred from returning to their homes, or what remains of them.

On DE’s colonial genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama and the way its memory/forgetting affects Germany’s policy regarding the genocide in Gaza, and the memory of the holocaust. Sent from Windhoek and published on 12 April on the genocide’s anniversary. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Three Genocides -
Eyal Weizman lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…