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The Owen Jones Podcast

This Will Change How You See Israel's Genocide w/. Eyal Weizman

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Get Eyal Weizman's Ungrounding here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463141/ungrounding-by-weizman-eyal/9781911717331


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0:00.0

This will transform the way you look at Israel's Western facilitated genocide of the Palestinian people.

0:06.0

Many of you will be aware, actually, of the crucial work of forensic architecture.

0:10.2

For example, when five-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside with her family, her four cousins,

0:17.2

her older relatives, and then two paramedics who were dispatched to try and

0:22.6

savor were also killed. Forensic architecture is detailed study of exactly what happened,

0:27.7

how far the tanks were away with bullets which riddled through the car.

0:32.8

And the various statistics, which I've often used to talk to you, for example, the 82% of plant life

0:38.3

destroyed by Israel in Gaza. So much of our understanding of this genocide has come through

0:45.0

the crucial work of forensic architecture, whose work has been used as part of South Africa's

0:50.2

case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, of course, on genocide.

0:57.9

I'm really delighted to be joined today by the brilliant U.S. Weissman, who is the author of Ungrounding, you can see here, the architecture of genocide.

1:04.8

Firstly, thanks so much for joining us.

1:06.6

I just want to start by asking.

1:08.2

I mean, one of the things you talk about in the book is you kind of ask, what is this all for?

1:12.4

Is there any kind of point almost?

1:14.1

Because Israel enjoys the impunity that it has.

1:17.4

We saw yesterday, Ben Gavir doing a video where he abuses activists who are part of the global flotilla

1:27.1

and not to disparage,

1:29.7

also undermine the horror of what they went through. It's the tiniest, tiniest slither of what

1:34.5

Palestinians have been subjected to. And yet there's outrage and uproar, even though we have

1:38.8

overwhelming evidence, including on video, what Palestinians have been subjected to. So I guess

1:42.8

my question is, you know, do you ask yourself,

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