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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

6 months

One of the most horrific and heartbreaking of our investigations: hospital by hospital in Gaza targeted, put under siege, invaded…mass graves of patients, children and medical staff desparately dug in courtyards. A step by step recon. of this systematic and widespread crime.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

6 months

Our aggregation of news reports since 7 Oct suggests that hospitals in Gaza are subjected to a repeated pattern of intimidation, direct targeting, siege, and occupation by the Israeli military:

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6 months

Gaza’s most important archaeological site ruined forever: bombed from the air, then dug through and terraformed with bulldozers, then made to host a pumping station for flooding tunnels with seawater while ruining the coastal aquifers.

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@weizman_eyal

9 months

The Forensic Architecture unit in @alhaq_org is working around the clock, have our full support and solidarity, as we document the punishing violence of the occupation forces, a crime against humanity foretold, condoned, enabled and supported by the “international community”

Bethan McKernan

@mck_beth

9 months

NEW analysis shows strike that hit civilian convoy yesterday killing 70 was on one of two "safe routes" for evacuation identified by IDF. The strike means many still in N Gaza afraid to leave. Many thanks @AlHaq + @ForensicArchi . Also confirmed by BBC

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

4 months

Presenting false and misleading visual evidence in the International Court of Justice in a case in which the charge is Genocide is a serious matter.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

4 months

NEW REPORT: We analysed the visual material presented by Israel at the @CIJ_ICJ hearing on 12 Jan '24. We found 8 instances of the Israeli legal team misrepresenting materials presented through incorrect annotations and misleading descriptions. Full report

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@weizman_eyal

8 months

Today the @LRB is publishing my piece about the history of the Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip. It is an effort to think through the historical context of current events.

Eyal Weizman · Exchange Rate

However the conflict ends, with or without Hamas in power (and I bet on the former), Israel won’t be able to avoid...

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@weizman_eyal

6 months

A uniquely rich archaeological site, a treasure humanity, an evidence for how connected Gaza was to other Mediterranean cultures, now bombed, bulldozed and flooded by the Israeli occupation

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

6 months

One of Gaza’s most important archaeological sites—threatened previously by Israeli bombings/siege—has been mostly destroyed in the Israeli invasion. The site, near al-Shati refugee camp, consists of several excavations which suggest extensive remains throughout the area:

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@weizman_eyal

6 months

Every historical genocide also involved genocide denial.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

6 months

Today at the ICJ, Israel claimed its targeting of medical facilities has military justifications. All hospitals in the northern region of the strip were rendered inoperable, irrespective of whether such military justifications were provided. See below:

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

4 months

Israeli spokespersons, many in the media and even human rights groups suggested that the size of the Oct 17 blast at al-Ahli hospital was a result of unspent fuel remaining in a misfired Palestinian rocket. We find that all the rockets they pointed to have spent all their fuel🧵

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

4 months

Our latest findings on the al-Ahli hospital blast: using 3D trajectory analysis, we dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the hospital was struck by a misfiring Palestinian rocket from a salvo of 17, with most of the damage caused by unspent rocket propellant.

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@weizman_eyal

7 months

Wait what? A lecture by Phoebe Walton of @ForensicArchi sister organization @counterinv on the Dutch police killing of a German man in Amsterdam cancelled by @rwth after we have been described as an antisemitic organisation for our human rights work in Palestine.

Hyo Yoon KANG 강효윤 | same @zirk.us & @bsky.social

@hyoyoonkang

7 months

Forensic Architecture event gets cancelled by the rector of @RWTH one of Germany’s most prestigious technical universities, court rejects the convening prof’s appeal on grounds of freedom of speech any right to free academic discourse. Dark times.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

5 months

For those tens of thousands now booking your summer holidays in Greece: the Aegean is a crime scene and mass grave.

Forensis

@counterinv

5 months

Today we and @ForensicArchi publish an update to our ‘drift-backs’ platform, an interactive web-based map that archives and verifies over 2,000 cases of ‘drift-backs’ in the Aegean Sea:

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

6 months

Netanyahu proposes to name this invasion “Beresheet” or “Genesis” taking the genocidal language one step further. Creation based on annihilation. Meanwhile the army floods the underground and its aquifers with salty seawaters like the Roman legions sowing fields with salt.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

6 months

Sat. imagery from 8 Oct–10 Dec reveals the development of Israeli water pump infrastructure in/around the archeological site. We identified pipes and a 4.5m+ high earth mound in a ground-level video posted by IOF on 6 Dec, labelled w a biblical quote ‘and the water will return’.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

5 months

No safe zones. Israeli military is targeting hospitals and civilians shelters within areas designated “safe”.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

5 months

In its defence at the @CIJ_ICJ , Israel claimed it has protected civilians with ‘evacuation orders’ and ‘humanitarian/safe zones’. In the week leading up to today's ruling on provisional measures, Israel has repeatedly targeted shelters & hospitals within these humanitarian zones.

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eyal weizman

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3 months

It was an honour to be speaking about the suppression of progressive Palestinian and Jewish voices in Germany, about @counterinv @ForensicArchi with the legendary Amy Goodman and Narmeen Shaikh on @democracynow

Eyal Weizman on Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Gaza & Targeting of Pro-Palestinian Jews

Extended conversation with Eyal Weizman, a British Israeli architect born in Haifa who founded Forensic Architecture. He’s the author of several books, including Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of...

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@weizman_eyal

2 years

Our investigation into the IOF’s targeting of legendary Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with the formidable @alhaq_org took its time but did its work.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

2 years

NEW Investigation by FA and @alhaq_org 's FAI Unit into the 11 May extrajudicial killing of Shireen Abu Akleh uses previously unseen footage provided by @AJArabic and advanced spatial and audio analysis to reveal conclusive evidence. Full investigation: 1/9

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

8 months

The German Bundestag to legislate new laws targeting and racialising migrants purportedly to protect Jews. Making it more dangerous for all. In the meantime the real white supremacists antisemites are safely in parliament and infest the security services.

Kundgebung zum Gaza-Konflikt: „Die Räume werden enger“

Auf einer von jüdischen KünstlerInnen und AutorInnen organisierten Kundgebung wird getrauert, protestiert – und zunehmendes Schweigen angeprangert.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

1 month

Our report annexed to the South African submission to the @CIJ_ICJ on 20 May. The court ordered immediate cessation of military activity in Rafah and other provisions.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

1 month

This report was annexed in its entirety to the South African submission to the @CIJ_ICJ on 20 May.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

4 months

The rubble of Gaza is made of broken homes, broken lives and ungrounded archaeological remnants 5000 years old.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

4 months

On 15 Feb @UNRWA posted a video of the ruins of al-Shati Refugee Camp, under which lies an archaeological site w/ remains from Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman & Byzantine eras. Its destruction is an attempt to destroy Palestinian heritage, a key part of Israel’s genocidal campaign.

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1 year

The memory of dozens of witnesses to the massacre and expulsion of Tantura’s Palestinian residents is woven into a reconstruction of the village and the sites of mass burial in it. Our new investigation. One of the most difficult and moving.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

1 year

Today we reveal new evidence about the massacres carried out by Israeli forces in the Palestinian village of Tantura after its occupation in May 1948. Our investigation establishes two very likely sites of mass graves—one newly identified.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

5 months

Israeli tanks inside the safe zone

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

5 months

We geolocated a video circulated this morning, showing the movement of IOF tanks within the designated humanitarian zone of Al-Mawasi in South Gaza. Reports from Gaza indicate a series of IOF attacks since last night on this 'safe zone', displacing thousands.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

2 months

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.

Eyal Weizman · Diary: Three Genocides

On 13 January, the president of Namibia, Hage Geingob, rebuked Germany, arguing that it ‘cannot morally express...

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

3 months

Germany believes that to be a good friend is to send more ammunitions to state in a state of murderous rage.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 months

Forensis, our sister group in Berlin @andrdimitra @counterinv compiled data on the scale of German weapons export to Israel which has further grown during the genocide… in support of a legal challenge seeking to halt it.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

6 years

Very surprised and a little overwhelmed by the Turner nomination. Will it help promote FA’s cause and investigations (what matters) or get us subsumed within the arts-financial-complex?

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@weizman_eyal

4 months

Israel’s defence at the @CIJ_ICJ genocide case was its supposed adherence to humanitarian principles eg. warnings, safe zones. ‘Humanitarian violence’ is the abuse of humanitarian principles to amplify and proliferate rather than contain the effects of military violence. 🧵

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

4 months

NEW INVESTIGATION: Since 7 Oct 23, the Israeli army has weaponised humanitarian measures such as ‘evacuation orders’, ‘safe routes’ & ‘safe zones’ to support their military operations & facilitate the mass displacement of Palestinians. View the platform:

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@weizman_eyal

5 months

Earshot is what the investigative community always needed. An independent open-source evidence-based audio analysis to confront lies and misrepresentations.

earshot.ngo

@earshot_ngo

5 months

On Jan 22 in Khan Yunis, Gaza, 4 civilians were fired at while holding a white flag. Ramzi Abu Sahloul was killed. Earshot’s analysis shows the civilians were targeted by two or more shooters in the Israeli Army vehicles positioned 330m to the East of the cameras' location.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

4 months

We checked Israel legal team’s evidence at ICJ Gaza case.

Israel legal team’s evidence at ICJ Gaza case was misleading: research group

A research group says it has found eight instances where the Israeli legal team at the International Court of Justice in the Gaza Strip case misrepresented the visual evidence it cited.

www.timeslive.co.za

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

3 months

The Taz attempts a criticism of our scientific methods, clumsily making several basic errors. When confronted about their falsehoods and misrepresentations they respond saying it’s only a cultural review.

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein

3 months

Sehr gute FR-Recherche zu @ForensicArchi . Faszinierend zirkulär dass die Wissenschaftlichkeit des Kollektivs in der Taz infrage gestellt wurde und auf Nachfrage warum FA nicht befragt wurde, heißt es: 'Das ist in der Feuilleton-Berichterstattung so üblich'

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

4 years

Michael Sorkin, my beloved architectural-god-father, now brings his relentless fight to gods and angels. Give them hell Michael!

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@weizman_eyal

4 months

Humanitarian violence has been continuously unleashed by Israeli forces on Palestinians in Gaza. Just look at the way Israel weaponised “warnings” and “safe zones” to ethnically cleanse and terrorise an entire people.

Dr. Emine Seda Kayim

@sedakayim

5 months

Today, I concluded the ‘Spaces of Exception’ module of my seminar with the following passage from Eyal Weizman’s ‘Least of All Possible Evils.’ “Gaza is a laboratory in more than one sense. It is a hermetically sealed zone, with all access controlled by Israel…” /1

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

9 months

So this is the university’s new robe: support for apartheid and collective murder by cancelling those that call to stop it.

Yanis Varoufakis

@yanisvaroufakis

9 months

Good & bad news for those who want to cancel me for my opposition to Israel's Apartheid/Occupation: The good news is that I was cancelled in Vienna where, on Monday, I was to deliver the 2023 Otto Wagner 2023 Lecture, organised by IKA Institute for Art and Architecture (even

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@weizman_eyal

4 years

Can hide my enthusiasm about Susan Schuppli’s new book. It’s beautiful. A masterpiece.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

2 years

The beautiful islands of the Aegean, about the attract million of tourists, are the site of more than 1000 heinous crimes committed by Greek forces with the EU’s complicity against vulnerable migrants seeking refuge.

Progressive International

@ProgIntl

2 years

BREAKING: Since March 2020, Greek PM @kmitsotakis has abandoned 27,464 migrants to die on the Aegean Sea — with @Frontex support and NATO consent. Data from @ForensicArchi reveal a new campaign of violent and illegal expulsions known as 'drift-backs':

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@weizman_eyal

27 days

A misleading ruling from the @CIJ_ICJ , misleading evacuation maps from the army, families running from one unprotected zone to another. The massacre of civilians continues. Last week in Gaza.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

27 days

Israel claims that the poorly worded 24 May ICJ ruling gives it license to continue attacking Palestinians in Gaza, if it warns civilians to evacuate combat zones and move to safe 'humanitarian zones'. But we have geolocated three strikes within areas Israel suggested were safe.

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@weizman_eyal

2 years

We have discovered the amazing Ukrainian architectural group @CST_echo a couple of years ago, in better times. Now we host them at @counterinv our Berlin office and honoured to start working together. The first project based on their long term work on Babyn Yar for @babynyarhmc

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

2 years

FA is pleased to announce its first collaborative investigation with @CST_echo . Just over 3 months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we present a detailed analysis of one of the first symbolically significant events of the war, the Russian missile strike on the Kyiv TV tower.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

8 months

Personally: fast at work but slow in grief. Trying to process the murder of @forensicarchi close Palestinian friends and partners in Gaza, that of direct family members of my Palestinian colleagues, and of Israeli friends precious to members of my immediate family.

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@weizman_eyal

2 years

Two year ago I was banned from traveling to US after an algorithms flagged me as a risk. Visa recently reissued 🙏 @twkeenan and @DanielleRiou of the Human Rights Project @BardCollege who mobilised both NY Senators. Next week Ill be giving a few talks 🧵

Forensic Architecture Founder Says United States Prevented His Visit (Published 2020)

Eyal Weizman, the director of the investigative group, said an embassy official in London told him an algorithm had identified a security threat that was related to him.

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@weizman_eyal

4 years

"We Can't Breath". My lecture on Atmospheric Violence and Lethal Doubt, at 7:30pm, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 at the AA lecture hall.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

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Hon. to present @ForensicArchi evidence in the Lucas García trial. The military he commanded destroyed villages, forests and fields as part of the Guatemala’s 1980s genocidal campaign against the Ixil Maya people. the last chr. in c. of set-colonial wars on indigenous peoples.

Verdad y Justicia en Guatemala

@VerdadJusticiaG

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#CasoGenocidioIxil #LucasGarc ía Por videoconferencia se presentó el perito Eyal Weizman quien ratificó su peritaje, La tierra arrasada: violencia medioambiental en el territorio Ixil. Explicó que su peritaje narra como los ataques, por parte del ejército, a la población ixil

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@weizman_eyal

3 months

Ines’ work on Josephine Baker trip through Northern Africa and the Arab World is a part spy mystery part architectural travelogue weaving together the modern-colonial legacy of hotels, cabarets and casinos throughout the region.

Diriyah Biennale Foundation

@Biennale_Sa

4 months

Ines Weizman’s film brings together archival photographs of modernist hotels in the Arab region that served as meeting points for famed performer Josephine Baker during her time as a spy throughout WWII. Discover more at the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. Book your

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8 months

It is a story of the Israeli civilians placed by their state as a living wall, on refugee land, in front of these refugee’s eyes, in the line of fire, to become part of a brutal siege, and then abandoned.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

8 months

happy and proud to have Bashak join us at Goldsmiths and @ForensicArchi

Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

@Viscult

8 months

lead the new MRes in Forensic Architecture in the Centre for Research Architecture from the next academic year. @cra_goldsmiths @visculturesgold

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@weizman_eyal

3 years

A two years partnership with the Colombian Truth Commission, working through lockdowns, a team of twenty, from Colombia and the rest of world, scattered across 12 time zones. The first report of the Truth Commission with FA. Historical work. Friday Dec 10th. Bogotá.

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@weizman_eyal

8 months

The bombings, expulsions, and displacements, the pulverising, levelling, burning and flattening, the starving, assassinating, dehumanising and degrading have been experienced for decades by Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, and are not merely consequence of Oct 7.

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

3 years

Happy to announce that we launched a new Berlin based org: FORENSIS in an exhibition with our partners in the INVESTIGATIVE COMMONS @ECCHRBerlin @laurapoitras @bellingcat @mnemonicorg thanks again @HKW_Berlin

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 years

FA returns to @hkw_berlin today to launch our new Berlin-based sister agency, FORENSIS, and the Investigative Commons, a new community of practice founded on the work of FA and our partners including @ECCHRBerlin , Praxis Films, @bellingcat , @amnesty , @mnemonicorg , among others

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Most urgently now a ceasefire and the safe exchange of all captives, all detainees and all prisoners. When this nightmare is over, those that survive, will continue the struggle for liberation and we will find new means to support it.

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@weizman_eyal

2 months

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

Cabinet Magazine

@cabinetmagazine

2 months

Some unscrupulous agent has uploaded a PDF of the sold-out “Conflict Shoreline”, in which @weizman_eyal of @ForensicArchi & photographer Fazal Sheikh explore the Negev Desert in Israel as a case study for the entanglement of climate change & colonization.

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Context is not justification. While Palestinians have the right and duty to resist, he massacres of these Israelis by Hamas on Oct 7, the families shot or burnt in their homes, the ravers executed at the party, should not have followed, neither logically nor morally.

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@weizman_eyal

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@ForensicArchi collaborated with one of the most inspiring group of activists working to secure demonstrations in Portland. Including BLM protests against police brutality. When one of the activists was murdered the police blamed the victims.

Guardian US

@GuardianUS

4 months

A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?

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eyal weizman

@weizman_eyal

3 months

Extremely useful tool for anyone monitoring the ongoing Gaza genocide

Mona Fawaz

@mona_fawaz

3 months

‼️ Another sadly telling work on Gaza tracks the destruction of life and all its infrastructures. Make time to visit the platform this weekend- superb work by the Gaza team, with many student volunteers at AUB to counter genocidal erasure.

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@weizman_eyal

2 years

Congratulation to @alhaq_org for launching its FA unit. The first inv. is a benchmark of the way spatial and open source analysis could (and should) be undertaken in close contact and collaboration with communities at the forefront of the liberation struggle.

Forensic Architecture

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2 years

FA is proud to announce the launch of the new @alhaq_org FA Investigation Unit based in Ramallah. This pioneering unit employs FA’s methods to document violations of the Israeli occupation, and aims to produce a new generation of Palestinian-led visual investigations.

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We collab. w the most inspiring group of activists working as ‘corkers’ to secure BLM protests against police brutality in Portland. When June Knightly, one of them, was murdered, the police blamed the victims. Investigation to be presented at Portland’s

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

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Our latest: After George Floyd's murder, June Knightly volunteered to protect BLM protesters as a ‘corker’. On 19 February 2022, she was murdered by a right-wing gunman influenced by toxic online rhetoric and political discourse.

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@weizman_eyal

2 years

Our new investigation on environmental violence and new campaign with the progressive international

Progressive International

@ProgIntl

2 years

REVEALED: The direct link between Jair Bolsonaro, the ecocide of the Amazon, and the accelerating violence against its Indigenous peoples. A new investigation by @ForensicArchi & @ClimateLitX , presented by @safbf . Track Bolsonaro's assault on the Amazon:

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The buildings of Gaza are graveyards. Thousands are already found dead. Many still buried under the rubble. Homes, hospitals and schools turned into mass graves, entire families wiped out the face of the earth.

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The Russian bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theatre has put an end to a unique community of solidarity and resilience, a city within a building. Now @CST_echo has gathered a entire diaspora of testimonies and rebuilt the memory of the theatre in virtual space.

Forensis

@counterinv

3 months

With our support & @ForensicArchi our Ukrainian partners at Center for Spatial Technologies @CST_echo released new additions to their spatial archive, gathering digital & visual evidence & testimonies from the Mariupol Theatre bombing 2 years ago.

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3 years

Dear Berliners and Berliners to be, if you want to be part of a new, collective, rigorous, committed, situated, conceptual adventure in investigative aesthetics we’d love you to apply…

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 years

FORENSIS, our new Berlin-based sister agency, is looking to hire an Assistant Researcher with demonstrably strong skills in 3D modeling, animation, graphics, and video editing + conceptual inclination to research. More info and how to apply here:

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4 years

“The student community fears the school will favour ‘theory’ over design” Eva: “The AA is a place where we become citizens of the world...and transform it into something more interesting, more radical, more free, more equal, more us.” You know where my heart lies.

edwin heathcote

@edwinheathcote

4 years

Perhaps architecture students don’t give a shit about ‘radical empathy’ and just want to do their lone genius thing. Which is a shame.

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7 years

Forensic Architecture's exhibition opening tomorrow in the MACBA Barcelona.

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5 months

A very moving statement by our Nama and Ovaherero partners in support of Palestinians, their defenders and us,

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

5 months

Our partners from the Nama Traditional Leaders Association and @OvahereroO , whose ancestors suffered the first genocide of the 20th c perpetrated by Germany, stand in solidarity with Palestinians and those working in their defence (including FA & @counterinv ). 🧵 Their statement:

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8 months

Thank you authors. Important.

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5 years

My essay on open verification: “Instead of rejecting the challenges to institutional authority..the moment of “post truth” could give rise to an alternative set of truth practices that challenge both the dark epistemology of the present as well as traditional notions of truth.”

Nick Axel

@alucidwake

5 years

Important new text out today on @e_flux Architecture by @weizman_eyal "Open Verification" about the practice of @ForensicArchi

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Sophie Virilio, daughter of Paul who died this Sept 10th, recreated his desk at the Fondation Cartier, including “Une Occupation Civile” for which he wrote an intro.

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Forensic Architecture’s: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics makes the Spanish NYtimes best books of 2017.

Diez libros de no ficción que han marcado 2017 (Published 2017)

Esta selección de obras publicadas este año en español no habla necesariamente de los mejores libros ni de los más vendidos, pero quizá sí de los más significativos: aquellos que han sido muy leídos,...

www.nytimes.com

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@weizman_eyal

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The Vertical Apartheid. Delighted to be publishing again with openDemocracy the new preface for Hollow Land @Verso

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Relieved the crashing of Gaza has ceased. Time to start taking stock, and call for accountability.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 years

In red, @pchrgaza data of Israeli attacks on public buildings in Gaza municipality. In blue @AlMezanCenter records of similar attacks in 2014. In 11-days the occupation forces have bombed the center of Gaza City harder than the 53-days military operation of 2014.

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Now, this is one of the most violent manifestations of a border we encountered in FA. A new investigation on EU mishandling a migrant shipwreck in the Aegean, based on waterproof footage by a survivor, Amel Alzakout.

Shipwreck At The Threshold Of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea

The death of more than 40 people off the coast of Lesvos in October 2015 was the single deadliest incident in Europe's 'long summer of migration'. One of the survivors, Amel Alzakout, recorded the...

forensic-architecture.org

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@weizman_eyal

5 years

Trevor’s opening dinner

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@weizman_eyal

3 years

Tying together the violence of israeli colonialism and the US led ‘war of terror’

Progressive International

@ProgIntl

3 years

"I chose to speak about drone strikes because they embody an important political justification — the principle of lesser evil — similar to the civilising missions of colonisation." — @weizman_eyal giving evidence of the use of drones against civilians at The Belmarsh Tribunal.

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The article exposed a military practice that Kokhavi & @IDF deployed during operations in the city of Nablus. Rather than moving through the streets, where they could come under attack, his soldiers navigated the city by breaking through the walls of hundreds of civilian homes.

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@weizman_eyal

3 months

One of the last journalists left in Germany

daniel bax

@bax_daniel

3 months

Ich war beim aufgelösten „Palästina-Kongress“ in Berlin damit ihr es nicht müsst. Mein Bericht für ⁦ @tazgezwitscher ⁩.

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Yesterday, Aviv Kokhavi was sworn in as the new Chief of Staff of the @IDF . Kokhavi and I have history; I wrote about him in 2006 for @rphilos & for my 2007 book Hollow Land (). Kokhavi threatened to sue me if that piece was to be published in Hebrew.

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@weizman_eyal

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Pleased that the first investigation of FORENSIS, FA’s Berlin-based sister agency, is based on wide anti-racist alliances across Germany.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 years

Im Februar 2020 wurden neun Menschen bei einem rassistischen Anschlag in #Hanau ermordet. Das Vorgehen der Polizei an diesem Abend wirft viele Fragen auf. Wir arbeiten mit @19februarhanau und den Familien der Opfer zusammen, um einige dieser Fragen zu untersuchen.

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Less than two months before the 75 anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the German Luftwaffe advertises an image of one of its fighter jets against the ‘pastoral landscape’ of the Apartheid Wall, occupied Palestinian towns and villages and illegal settlements.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

1 year

As the far-right Israeli government continues its illegal annexation of the West Bank, Germany’s @team_luftwaffe announced its participation in official celebrations of Israel’s 75th anniversary - the Palestinian Nakba - tweeting a video of German + Israeli jets flying together

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Everybody at FA is really pleased to have been awarded a Peabody!!

Peabody Awards

@PeabodyAwards

2 years

Using the most sophisticated technologies, @forensicarchi has instilled itself as a pivotal research agency investigating #humanrights violations. Congratulations to @weizman_eyal & all for their pivotal work in interactive journalism! 🔎: #PeabodyWinner

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15 May 2018. A reminder that the Nakba has never ended.

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3 years

Congrats to Alison Killing and the field

When architecture meets activism

Alison Killing’s Pulitzer Prize marks the recognition of architects’ capacity to engage in politics and human rights

www.ft.com

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@weizman_eyal

1 year

Grain is the fuel of bio-political sovereignty — understood as the distribution of nutrition to a population. The silos were a modern masterpiece. The destruction of the ruins of the silos is the end of the idea of modern sovereignty.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

1 year

Our latest investigation with @FebrayerNetwork and @madamasr into the #BeirutPortExplosion examines the collapse of the city’s grain silos, exposing multiple levels of state failure in preserving this important site of material evidence and memory.

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Our recent investigation: unearthing an archaeological jewel in Gaza +using open source methods for exposing its gradual destruction by Israel. Legal opinion @alhaq_org

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

2 years

Our latest investigation + our first ‘open source archaeology’, documents the ancient city of Anthedon near Al-Shati camp in Gaza—Palestinian heritage under threat from coastal erosion, repeated bombings & the humanitarian disaster of Israeli occupation.

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Thanks @elpais for this report on the work of @ForensicArchi

“Los arquitectos también pueden cometer un crimen de guerra en una mesa de dibujo”

Eyal Weizman lidera el colectivo interdisciplinar Forensic Architecture. Entre el arte y el activismo, trabaja por esclarecer crímenes de Estado y es candidato al Premio Turner

elpais.com

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@weizman_eyal

6 years

@tweetissima @ForensicArchi Whatever “art” is (and we don’t consider ourselves artists) is anyways unstable. Abandoning the term to appease our critics is giving up too much. Why not insist, as counterintuitive as it may seem, on the evidentiary dimension of art and its truth value?

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@weizman_eyal

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On that day in 1893 German Schutztruppe massacred in and destroyed Hornkranz. @forensicarchi + @counterinv reconstructed with the Nama Traditional Leaders Association, the first act of genocide that culminated in the genocidal war of 1904-1908.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 months

NEW INVESTIGATION: On this day in 1893 in present-day Namibia, German colonial troops carried out a massacre at ||Nâ‡gâs, a settlement of the |Khowesin (Witbooi) Nama the colonists called Hornkranz. Working with descendants of survivors, we reconstructed the nearly erased site.

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Our interactive investigation into Germany's Colonial-Era Genocide in Namibia (South West Africa) in support of Herero claims for reparation studies photo archives, engages aural histories and maps the resulting environmental change... via @derspiegel

Namibia Continues Seeking Justice for Germany's Colonial-Era Genocide: "It's As If We Never Existed"

"Every Herero, with or without a gun, will be shot." That was the order given in October 1904, setting off Germany's genocide in Namibia. New research shows how the crime continues to have an effect...

www.spiegel.de

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We started the conversation speaking about @ForensicArchi research on Israel’s use of “humanitarian measures” to generate mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza . Here

Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”

A new report by the research group Forensic Architecture counters Israel’s argument at the International Court of Justice that it followed humanitarian policies to safeguard civilian life in Gaza....

www.democracynow.org

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@weizman_eyal

3 years

A new investigation (with friends) on the assassination of Colombian student activist Lucas Villa.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 years

7 months ago Lucas Villa was killed in Pereira Colombia while participating in protests during a national strike. FA @bellingcat @cerosetenta @BaudoAP analyzed the incident inc previously unseen footage. Our analysis shows Lucas was targeted in a coordinated assassination. Thread

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New book with my friend Matt Fuller

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

3 years

'One of the major differences between the Hong Kong protests of 2014 and those of 2020 is that many more hundreds of hours of video were posted online and streamed by participants' An excerpt of Investigative Aesthetics by @weizman_eyal and Matthew Fuller.

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Lawrence does it again!

FLAMIN

@FL_FLAMIN

6 years

Congratulations to #JarmanAward alumnus Lawrence Abu Hamdan who has won the @ArtBasel Baloise Art Prize!

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Helfen Sie uns, die Schwesteragentur für forensische Architektur in Berlin weiter aufzubauen

Forensis

@counterinv

1 year

Forensis is hiring! We are looking for an Operations Coordinator who is organised, responsible, reliable, has a keen eye for detail, and a strong ambition and willingness to work as part of an interdisciplinary team. Apply by 19 April. More info here:

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Finally in French. Merci Grégoire et Marc!

Mehdi Arfaoui

@libidosciendi

4 years

Eyal WEIZMAN, La vérité en ruines. Manifeste pour une architecture forensique

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Our open source investigation with @bellingcat and @nytimes into the killing of Óscar Pérez in Caracas, Venezuela

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Thanks Artnet: The Most Important Piece at documenta 14 in Kassel Is Not Art. It's Evidence. | artnet News

The Most Important Piece at documenta 14 in Kassel Is Not Art. It's Evidence. | artnet News

In Kassel, research into a murder case involving a neo-Nazi terrorist organization demonstrates what civil society can achieve with art.

news.artnet.com

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The Independent on our LDB exhibition. How Yazidi refugees are using drones and helium balloons to collect evidence of genocide

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Israeli prison just confiscated my book Hollow Land from Balad party’s Basel Ghattas for being “contraband

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The pioneering work of Wikileaks shattered every established paradigm of public interest journalism, and ushered in a new era of investigative reporting. Forensic Architecture’s statement on the arrest of Julian Assange

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

5 years

Our statement on the arrest of @wikileaks ' Julian Assange

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thanks for this initiative

ECCHR

@ECCHRBerlin

3 months

Das ECCHR hat mit Unterstützung von @pchrgaza , @AlMezanCenter und @alhaq_org Klage gegen die deutschen Waffenexporte nach Israel eingereicht. Deutschland verletzt mit den erteilten Exportgenehmigungen Völkerrecht und muss diese zurücknehmen. 👉

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Our analysis support survivors claim that Greece is responsible for the death of hundreds of migrants at sea

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

1 year

On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying several hundred migrants sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea, becoming the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. @counterinv reconstructed the events leading up to the incident:

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Our recent investigation with The Guardian: How fracking is taking its toll on Argentina's indigenous people

How fracking is taking its toll on Argentina's indigenous people – video explainer

An oil fire burned for more than three weeks next to a freshwater lake in Vaca Muerta, Argentina, one of the world’s largest deposits of shale oil and gas and home to the indigenous Mapuche people....

www.theguardian.com

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@weizman_eyal

4 years

Trump’s ‘Apartheid for a century’ deal can not be accepted by anyone believing in equality, dignity and freedom in our region.

Trump unveils Middle East peace plan with no Palestinian support

Plan offers route to Palestinian state but recognises Israeli settlements in West Bank

www.theguardian.com

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@weizman_eyal

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Forensis’ news investigation. Greece prefer migrants dying to disembarking on its shores. Their coast guard bears responsibility for the drowning and then lie about it…

Forensis

@counterinv

1 year

On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying several hundred migrants sank inside the Greek Search and Rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea, constituting the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. Forensis reconstructed the events leading up to the incident:

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Our first investigation tracking digital violence is out. The NSO group is part of an ecosystem of Israeli companies exporting cyber weapons developed in the context of the israeli occupation.

Forensic Architecture

@ForensicArchi

3 years

NEW: Forensic Architecture’s investigation into the Israeli cyberweapons company NSO Group, supported by @Amnesty , @CitizenLab and a large coalition of activists and investigators located in countries around the world who have been targeted by NSO’s malware Pegasus.

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The Cloud and the Roundabout @ForensicArchi study on police repression with teargas in Santiago de Chile via @interferenciaCL

Lacrimógenas en Plaza Dignidad: investigación inglesa registró concentraciones 135 veces superiores...

interferencia.cl

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Radical Rethinking at the Venice Architecture Biennale - The New York Times

Radical Rethinking at Biennale: Africa and the Future Share Pride of Place (Published 2023)

Don’t be fooled by its generic title. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years.

www.nytimes.com

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Happy holidays

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