Eyal Weizman: How Israel is engineering genocide and ethnic cleansing
In an episode of the UNAPOLOGETIC series hosted by Ashfaaq Carim, Middle East Eye interviews Eyal Weizman, a renowned architect, scholar, and founder of Forensic Architecture. Weizman discusses his concept of an "architecture of occupation and ethnic cleansing," tracing its origins back to 1948 and examining its continued evolution across Gaza, the West Bank, and within Israel itself. The discussion highlights how spatial strategies, including the construction of settlements, bypass roads, surveillance towers, and systematic home demolitions, are utilized as tools to control, fragment, and displace Palestinian populations. Forensic Architecture, the research agency founded by Weizman, employs spatial investigation techniques to expose state violence and document human rights abuses. This interview provides a critical analysis of how urban planning and architectural design serve as instruments of political control and ethnic cleansing in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The segment aims to uncover the structural mechanisms behind displacement and offers a detailed perspective on the long-term strategic use of space in maintaining occupation and enforcing demographic changes in the region.
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Eyal Weizman: How Israel is engineering genocide and ethnic cleansing
In an episode of the UNAPOLOGETIC series hosted by Ashfaaq Carim, Middle East Eye interviews Eyal Weizman, a renowned architect, scholar, and founder of Forensic Architecture. Weizman discusses his concept of an "architecture of occupation and ethnic cleansing," tracing its origins back to 1948 and examining its continued evolution across Gaza, the West Bank, and within Israel itself. The discussion highlights how spatial strategies, including the construction of settlements, bypass roads, surveillance towers, and systematic home demolitions, are utilized as tools to control, fragment, and displace Palestinian populations. Forensic Architecture, the research agency founded by Weizman, employs spatial investigation techniques to expose state violence and document human rights abuses. This interview provides a critical analysis of how urban planning and architectural design serve as instruments of political control and ethnic cleansing in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The segment aims to uncover the structural mechanisms behind displacement and offers a detailed perspective on the long-term strategic use of space in maintaining occupation and enforcing demographic changes in the region.
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