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The Institute for Palestine Studies and The Jerusalem Fund invite you to join us for a screening and lecture on the executions and mass graves in Tantura and al-Dawayima, led by Forensic Architecture's lead Palestine investigator, Dr. Shourideh Molavi.
Based in London, the research group Forensic Architecture (FA) emerged as a critical practice dedicated to challenging settler-colonial violence in Palestine with locally situated counter-investigations. Its work has expanded globally to offer groundbreaking investigations into state, corporate, and colonial crimes.
For the past three years, FA has launched a series of investigative projects analyzing the available visual and cartographic evidence of Zionist and Israeli massacres of Palestinians in and around 1948. Focusing on continuities in Palestine’s ongoing Nakba and its history of settler colonialism, FA researchers have worked closely with Palestinian witnesses to and living survivors of these massacres using immersive architectural modeling as a tool of recollection to reconstruct their lost life-worlds and uncover new evidence of Israeli crimes.
Screened for the first time in the United States, FA's two new investigative projects into massacres conducted by Zionist paramilitary groups and Israeli forces and the mass graves constructed after the forced depopulations in the Palestinian villages of Tantura and al-Dawayima—two among hundreds of villages erased from the landscape in 1948—will be shown and followed by an immersive lecture by its lead researcher on these projects.
In the context of Israel’s genocidal campaign in the occupied Gaza Strip, these investigative projects speak to longer colonial practices seeking to systematically destroy Palestinian life and environment, bodies, and architecture.