When I look at the world around me, I find myself returning to this quote, again and again.

International lawyers are now writing long and exacting treatments of the genocide charge re #Gaza . The first in a Journal of Genocide Research series by Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) has dropped. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt Itamar Mann Samuel Moyn 🔭 Noura Erakat

Extraordinary essay by Eyal Weizman Forensic Architecture - on the links between genocide in #Gaza & German colonial genocide in South-West Africa; on 'what it means to speak truth to repressive powers, and what are the consequences of such acts'.
Must-read:
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This remarkable essay by Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture, links a too-little known history with the hottest contemporary genocide before which the polities of The West together remains too frozen to rise up and act. Diary lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they arrest you, then they erect a plaque commemorating your struggle

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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-…

A copy of my out of print book with Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline, published by Steidl and Cabinet Books is now online.

‘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/…

'In this context it’s inspiring that the Nama and Ovaherero groups decided to respond to the political atmosphere of censorship and intimidation that greets any expression of support for Palestinians...' eyal weizman
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Governments always lie, but how can we catch them in the act?

Ash Sarkar talks to eyal weizman

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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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Vale la pena leer este texto de mi amigo eyal weizman y entender cómo se relaciona un genocidio con otro y los intentos de los responsables por negarlos e incluso aplaudir que se repita nuevamente en otros lado. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

One of the last journalists left in Germany

Ich war beim aufgelösten „Palästina-Kongress“ in Berlin damit ihr es nicht müsst. Mein Bericht für ⁦taz⁩. taz.de/Palaestina-Kon…