eyal weizman
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Director of Forensic Architecture/London and Forensis/Berlin
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22-05-2014 21:45:05
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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-…
‘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
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/… @lrb
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.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
➡️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.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
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/…
»Wenn es am Ende ein Umdenken der Bundesregierung zu dem Thema gibt, dann haben wir auch etwas erreicht«, sagt ECCHR-Generalsekretär Wolfgang Kaleck zur Klage gegen deutsche Waffenexporte nach Israel gegenüber dem Spiegel.
spiegel.de/ausland/israel…
‘The German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.’
– President Hage Geingob, 13 January.
Online early: eyal weizman reports from Namibia on Nama and Ovaherero calls for not just recognition but reparations.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…