In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Non-Resident Fellow Peter Beinart talks to Eyal Weizman about his work at Forensic Architecture and the recently released “Cartography of Genocide” – an interactive platform that maps Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza and use of mass evacuation orders to destroy civilian life. Along with the platform, Forensic Architecture released a 827-page report documenting Israeli war crimes and has presented its evidence and findings to the International Court of Justice.
Recorded November 27, 2024
Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since. He graduated in architecture in 1998 from the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium/Birkbeck College in 2006.
Peter Beinart is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is also a Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, an Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, and an MSNBC Political Commentator.
Resources from Forensic Archiecture
- ‘When it Stopped Being a War’: The Situated Testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- The Killing of Hind Rajab (Gaza City, Gaza -29.01.2024)
- Humanitarian Violence in Gaza
- An Assessment of Visual Material Presented by the Israeli Legal Team at the ICJ
- ‘No traces of life’: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024
- Shireen Abu Akhleh: A Targeted Killing of a Journalist