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REFRAINING FROM THE FIGURE OF INNOCENCE.
▻https://thefunambulist.net/history/palestine-refraining-from-the-figure-of-innocence

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The figure of innocence is therefore useful in a strategy of perpetuation of the occupation. Let’s try to examine this concept through its two meanings. The first one intervenes in the judiciary realm. In this context, one is said to be innocent as long as s/he has not been proven guilty through a proper judicial procedure. According to this definition, all of the 448 killed and 3,008 wounded in the Gaza strip during these last two weeks can be said to be innocent: children, civilians and people suspected to be involved in launching rockets towards Israeli towns alike. Within this definition of innocence and in the absence of any judiciary procedure, all in Gaza are innocent to the same degree.

Considering the second definition of innocence is also useful. This second understanding of innocence is profoundly linked to the idea of childhood. We say of a child that s/he is innocent in the sense that s/he can have an uncorrupted mode of existence in the world. This is what make us so angry when we see these horrifying photographs of murdered children in the streets or beaches of Gaza. The passage from childhood to teenage or adulthood is characterized by the loss of this innocence. By definition, the ‘corruption’ of the child can only come from causes that are external to her/him. In this sense, nobody in Gaza can be said to still be innocent: the hospitals where children of Gaza are born depend on the will of the Israeli army for their construction, electricity, supplies and general functioning (i.e. whether it is being bombed like they currently are). This dependence renders any innocence impossible since being born during a bombing, a power outage, and/or an overpopulated hospital can only have consequences on the newborn baby. Similarly, the milk drunk by this same baby has either been imported from Israel according to unilateral conditions, or smuggled from Egypt, in both cases influenced by the military blockade. Examples are plethora. The ‘corruption’ by external causes is therefore at work from the very beginning of the people of Gaza’s life to their very end (end that can be determined militarily as we are powerlessly seeing right now). Because the loss of this innocence can only occur through external causes, the perpetrators of these causes — in this case, the Israeli government and army — are to be judged responsible for these ‘stolen childhoods.’

U.S. POLICE : BROKEN WINDOWS NEOLIBERALISM BY CHRISTINA HEATHERTON

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The situation in Ferguson is replicated throughout the country, particularly in the poorest regions which are disproportionately Black, Native, and Latino. In her recent dissenting opinion in the case of Utah vs. Streiff, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sotomayor outlined the dread that permeates the lives of people of color where the constant threat of removal hangs over them. Policing crimes of poverty against people too poor to pay their tickets, court fees, or citations, has made people their bodies “subject to invasion,” making them feel not citizens of a democracy but “subject(s) of a carceral state, just waiting to be cataloged.” This fear permeates the country. Currently, over 7.8 million outstanding warrants are logged in States and Federal Government databases, the majority of which are for minor offenses. How did this situation come to pass? Is this vulnerability new? Why and how has policing been tied to local regimes of accumulation?

THE SPACE OF THE APARTHEID IN NABI SALEH, AHED TAMIMI’S HOME VILLAGE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/law/the-space-of-the-apartheid-in-nabi-saleh-ahed-tamimis-home-village

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A particularity of Nabi Saleh consists in its proximity with the Israeli settlement of Halamish, where over 1,500 settlers live, despite the violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention that the existence of such a civil infrastructure on occupied territory embodies (see the other map towards the end of the article). Between them, the Road 465 that circulates exclusively in Area C and allow the optimized circulation of Israeli vehicles from Tel Aviv, as well as the gigantic US-built Nahshonim military base situated on the immediate west part of the Green Line, to settlements situated between Ramallah and Nablus. Although the access to this road is authorized to Palestinian cars on ‘normal’ days (a small part of it links Birzeit to the new town of Rawabi), the road is regularly patrolled by Israeli army vehicles and its passage through the Apartheid Wall is sanctioned by the Rantis military checkpoint that grants access only to cars bearing a yellow plate (the Israeli license color) with all passengers presenting either an Israeli passport or a work permit, the latter being potentially denied at the discretion of the soldiers.

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THE “NO-STATE SOLUTION” : DECOLONIZING PALESTINE BEYOND THE WEST BANK AND EAST-JERUSALEM WITH SOPHIA AZEB
▻https://thefunambulist.net/no-state-solution-decolonizing-palestine-beyond-west-bank-east-jerus

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A CONVERSATION WITH SOPHIA AZEB, PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRUNO FERT

LÉOPOLD LAMBERT: Three years ago, you and I met to talk about the power of imagination in political struggle, and your idea of what we called back then the “no-state solution” for the future of Palestine. On December 23, 2016, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2334 that condemns the construction and existence of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. There seems to be a relative consensus among liberal media outlets and politicians on using the term of “colonization” when referring to these settlements. Although we should probably rejoice that organizing efforts such as the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign are indubitably one of the key elements behind the vote for such a resolution, I think that we both share a strong cautiousness about the sort of text that only conceives colonization through the very narrow spectrum of the “Palestinian occupied territories,” rather than through the totality of the Israeli apartheid in Palestine. Would you agree to say that the vision proposed by this resolution as well as the usual liberal narrative is a risky one, as it adopts the entire terminology of the so-called “two-state solution,” that would create a very precarious State of Palestine on a limited and fragmented piece of territory, and ultimately retroactively legitimize the colonial violence deployed against Palestinians since 1947?

“THEY CALLED YOUR APARTMENTS AND GARDENS GUERRILLA STRONGHOLDS.” BURJ AL-BARAJNEH AND THE NOTION OF “HEZBOLLAH BASTION”
▻https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/they-called-your-apartments-and-gardens-guerrilla-strongholds-burj-a

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The recent outcry that blamed the Western (social and press) media to bring a disproportionate attention to Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris (Nov. 13, 2015) compared to the two bombs that exploded in Beirut a few hours earlier, can only be denied through disingenuous responses. Such disproportion finds it source in what journalists call in a brutal manifestation of cynism “the amount of deads per kilometers,” i.e. as the distance grows between the deadly event, there ‘needs’ to be a bigger amount of people who die to be considered relevant by a given newspaper or TV news broadcast. This cynical affirmation is furthermore inaccurate as it forgets the Westerno-centric component to it, which makes the death of an Israeli soldier more likely to be reported than the one of a Palestinian civilian despite the same distance. However, only affirming that we should pay attention to what happened in Beirut, and doing so, only after the Paris attacks occurred, is not enough and can fall into the same perverse logic than the one it pretends to fight, since it seems that it is only in the context of the comparison than an event (in this case, the double bombing in Beirut) seems to acquire importance. It also creates a false opposition between two cities, attacked by the same armed group and by doing so also forgets the folds of complexity of the situation: for example, the fact that many people feel connected de facto to the two events (there are 36,000 Lebanese people living in France, many of which resides in the Paris region).

17 octobre 1961 - un webdocumentairede Raspouteam
►http://raspou.team/1961/home
Lectures de témoignages, entretiens avec militants et historiens, #archives

Avec Simon Abkarian, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Jean-Francois Guerlach, Hammou Graïa, Lyes Salem, Robinson Stevenin & Sabrina Ouazani. Et la par­ti­ci­pa­tion de Mohammed Harbi, Neil McMaster, Jean-Luc Einaudi, Raphaëlle Branche, Mathieu Rigouste, Emmanuel Blanchard, Linda Amiri et Tramor Quemeneur.

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#webdocumentaire #17octobre1961 #immigration #bidonvilles #colonialisme #police #pogrom_policier #massacre #Paris #audio #vidéo #histoire

LE 17 OCTOBRE 1961 ET LES MÉDIAS
DE LA COUVERTURE DE L’HISTOIRE IMMÉDIATE AU “TRAVAIL DE MÉMOIRE
▻http://www.hommes-et-migrations.fr/docannexe/file/1228/1228_14.pdf

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Si dans les jours qui suivent le massacre d’octobre 1961, une bonne partie de la grande presse évoque disparitions, violences et internements, la censure est un épouvantail trop présent pour que vérité et protestations éclatent. Des intellectuels et la presse d’opinion prennent le relais, mais la mémoire de l’événement sombrera peu à peu dans la confusion. Elle refait surface dans les années quatre-vingt, et la diversification des médias permet alors de restituer l’émotion. La question du bilan réel sera à nouveau d’actualité avec le procès Papon en 1997, question qui demeure à ce jour sans réponse précise

Il y a 56 ans, les médias et le massacre du 17 octobre 1961
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SARA FARRIS /// European Femonationalism and Domestic Violence Against Women - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/sara-farris-european-femonationalism-domestic-violence-women

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This conversation with Sara Farris was recorded on August 7, 2017 to be featured as a transcript in the 13th issue of The Funambulist Magazine (Sept-Oct. 2017) Queers, Feminists & Interiors. It attempts to link the work she presents in her book, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017) with the violence against women that femonationalist discourses deliberately ignore (as these violences are exercised through what we could call “a universalist patriarchy”): domestic violence. The conversation first presents the political concept of femonationalism in the context of Europe, and then proceeds to describe the several dimensions of violence against women in domestic spaces.

Sara Farris is a senior lecturer in the sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill 2013) and In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke 2017). Sara’s work to date has focused on the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory, which she explored in my first monograph on Max Weber’s sociology of religion, and on theories of gender, race and social reproduction, particularly as they apply to the analysis of migrant women in Western Europe. Through these theoretical lenses and interests, Sara has examined theories of racism and nationalism; the specific gendered forms of Orientalist/Westocentric representations of women in the Western public discourse; the mobilization of women’s rights by right-wing nationalist parties within xenophobic campaigns (which Sara calls ‘Femonationalism’)

GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX
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AARHUS:
– Aysha Amin, “Being a Percentage, Rather Than a Human Being in Denmark” (guest column), in The Funambulist 13 Queers, Feminists & Interiors (Sept-Oct. 2017)
ACCRA:
– Bhakti Shringarpure, “Swarm, Demolish, Destroy: Rage Against the Monuments From Mali to Martinique”, in The Funambulist 11 Designed Destructions (May-June 2017)
AHMEDABAD:
– Emma Tarlo, “Clothing and the Indian Independence Struggle” (podcast transcripts), in The Funambulist 3 Clothing Politics (Jan-Feb. 2016)
– Unknown Fields, “Landscapes of Color” (photographic section), in The Funambulist 6 Object Politics (July-Aug. 2016)
ALABAMA:
– Eric Darnell Pritchard, “Sagging Pants: Criminalization and Racialized Adornment”, in The Funambulist 3 Clothing Politics (Jan-Feb. 2016)
ALEPPO:

Queers, Feminists & Interiors
▻https://thefunambulist.net/news/funambulist-13-sept-oct-2017-queers-feminists-interiors-published

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Encore un numéro passionnant de #thefunambulist

Palestine Report Part 4 : Rawabi, the Architectural Prophecy of an Unequal Palestinian State - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
►https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/palestine-report-part-4-rawabi-architectural-prophecy-unequal-palest

This article is the fourth installment of a series of five that operate as a report of my most recent stay in Palestine in July. While the three first parts were set up in Jerusalem-Al Quds, this fourth one is dedicated to a city that did not exist a few years ago. Situated in the West Bank between Nablus and Ramallah (see map at the end of this text), the new city of Rawabi materializes a sum of crucial questions about the present and the future of Palestine. Developed by the Bayti Real Investment Company, which is owned in partnership by the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and the Palestinian company Massar International owned by charismatic Bashar Masri, the construction of Rawabi started in 2010 at the climax of the politics of development engaged by then Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, former economist for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Such developments have particularly changed the face of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority in a deliberate indifference of the Israeli occupation and a consecration of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Furthermore, when it comes to these new neighborhoods built in the North of Ramallah (see the article “Constructing the Ramallah Bubble“) or Rawabi, it has become commonplace to compare their architectural aesthetics and their urban typology on top of hills (“rawabi” itself means “hills”) to the neighboring Israeli settlements — what I called in the past, an “architectural Stockholm syndrome.” As described by Tina Grandinetti in an article written for the second issue of The Funambulist Magazine, Suburban Geographies (Nov-Dec 2015)), the way architecture enforces the social segregation that a city like Rawabi produces is also manifest, and the many luxurious brands (Ferrari, Armani, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfinger, Mango, etc.) that ostensibly display “coming soon” signs on the storefront of their future stores in Rawabi, certainly contribute to it. Nevertheless, the questions that Rawabi triggers are too important to be dismissed by a superficial critique of it.

Très intéressant. La revue (▻https://thefunambulist.net/magazine) a l’air assez passionnante également.

#palestine #architecture

MAYANTHI FERNANDO /// Muslim French and the Contradiction of Secularism - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/mayanthi-fernando-muslim-french-contradiction-secularism
▻https://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=mfernan3

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This conversation with Mayanthi Fernando constitutes a new episode in a series of discussions with US-based researchers whose terrain of political investigations is situated in France. After Crystal Marie Flemming and Mehammed Amadeus Mack, Mayanthi describes her methodology and her work that she articulated in her book, The Republic Unsettled that was published in 2014. We talk about the ideological, legal, and discursive framework through which secularism (laicité) is approached, and often politically instrumentalized in the French Republic. In a second part, we describe the aspirations of the Muslim French community between “a right to difference” and “a right to indifference,” as well as the political activism that is undertaken in resistance to structural islamophobia in France.

Mayanthi Fernando is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her first book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014), alternates between an analysis of Muslim French politics, ethics, and social life and the contradictions of French secularity (laïcité) that this new Muslim subjectivity reflects and refracts. It explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic and secular-republican traditions as they create new modes of ethical and political engagement, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a future for France. It also examines how the institutions, political and legal practices, and dominant discourses that comprise French secularity regulate and govern–and profoundly disrupt–Muslim life. In so doing, it traces a series of long-standing tensions immanent to laïcité, tensions not so much generated as precipitated by the presence of Muslim French. It argues, ultimately, that “the Muslim question” is actually a question about secularism.

Rawabi, the Architectural Prophecy of an Unequal Palestinian State - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
►https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/palestine-report-part-4-rawabi-architectural-prophecy-unequal-palest

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Situated in the West Bank between Nablus and Ramallah (see map at the end of this text), the new city of Rawabi materializes a sum of crucial questions about the present and the future of Palestine. Developed by the Bayti Real Investment Company, which is owned in partnership by the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and the Palestinian company Massar International owned by charismatic Bashar Masri, the construction of Rawabi started in 2010 at the climax of the politics of development engaged by then Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, former economist for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Such developments have particularly changed the face of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority in a deliberate indifference of the Israeli occupation and a consecration of the 1993 Oslo Accords. Furthermore, when it comes to these new neighborhoods built in the North of Ramallah (see the article “Constructing the Ramallah Bubble“) or Rawabi, it has become commonplace to compare their architectural aesthetics and their urban typology on top of hills (“rawabi” itself means “hills”) to the neighboring Israeli settlements — what I called in the past, an “architectural Stockholm syndrome.”

PALESTINE REPORT PART 1 : THE “HEBRONIZATION” OF JERUSALEM-AL QUDS
▻https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/palestine-report-part-1-hebronization-jerusalem-al-quds

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I just came back from a week in Palestine and will attempt to make a small report about this new visit in five parts these coming days. The most urgent one is most certainly the one dedicated the current situation in Jerusalem’s Old City, where the Israeli police currently exercise an additional layer of Apartheid violence on Palestinian devotes, visitors, residents, and protesters. In the morning of July 14, three Palestinians killed two Israeli police officers controlling access to Al Haram (the Mosques Esplanade) in the Old City, in East Jerusalem before being killed themselves. In reaction, the Israeli police shut down the old city, authorizing only residents and Israeli settlers to enter the Holy city at first, then a couple days later, pilgrims and other non-Palestinian visitors — the photographs presented below were taken on July 17. Since then, the Israeli police have reopen the access to the Old City, as well as to Al Haram, but conditioned it on Friday to the sole entrance of Palestinians aged above 50 years, as well as to an obligatory passage through metal detectors, adding a layer of control to a territory already saturated by Apartheid apparatuses. Large prayers right outside the Old City were organized, as well as protests whose violent suppression lead to the death of six young Palestinian men these last two days. On Friday, a video could be seen of Palestinian protesters attempting with difficulties to evacuate the dead body of Mohammed Abu Ranam to prevent the Israeli police that had just killed him to capture it in order to significantly delay its funerals as they usually do.

PALESTINE REPORT PART 2 : THE WALLED REFUGEE CAMP OF SHU’FAT IN JERUSALEM
▻https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/palestine-report-2-walled-refugee-camp-shufat-jerusalem

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CHRONO-CARTOGRAPHY OF THE OCTOBER 17, 1961 MASSACRE OF ALGERIANS IN PARIS
►https://thefunambulist.net/history/chrono-cartography-october-17-1961-massacre-algerians-paris

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“In my current research about the architecture of the five states of emergency declared by the French State since 1955, the October 17, 1961 massacre that occurred in Paris towards the end of the Algerian Revolution is a key event. One thing strikes in the (disproportionally small) memorialization that is made of this event every year: the supposed spatial and temporal punctuality of its occurrence. According to the main narrative, the scenes of extreme violence of French police officers throwing Algerians into the Seine River happened around the Place Saint-Michel at the very center of Paris and manifested itself in the “hot-blooded” moment of suppression of massive demonstrations. What further research reveal on the contrary, is that this massacre occurred in a multiplicity of spatialities and temporalities. This is what this series of maps using aerial imagery of the time (plus/minus 3 years) attempts to illustrate in its descriptions of this event in a similar fashion to the one I had drawn to address the relationship between the city’s physicality and the bloody annihilation of the Paris Commune in 1871”

FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS OF DESIGNED DESTRUCTIONS IN GAZA
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-designed-destructions-gaza

▻https://soundcloud.com/the-archipelago/eyal-weizman-forensic-investigations-of-designed-destructions-in-gaza

“This conversation with Eyal Weizman was recorded in February 2017 in order to be featured as a main component of the 12th issue of The Funambulist Magazine, entitled “Designed Destructions.” In it we address both descriptively and analytically the work of Forensic Architecture, a research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London, that he founded and directs, gathering architects, artists, filmmakers, and authors to investigate geopolitical crimes in which architecture or territorial components can be approached as witnesses and evidences. Although the agency’s investigations involves a variety of geographies (Guatemala, Syria, Serbia, Pakistan, etc.), this conversation mostly focuses on Palestine in general, and Rafah, Gaza in particular.”

The Architecture of the State of Emergency in France (Harvard Design Magazine 2016)

In January 2015, two successive attacks in Paris led to the assassination of 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the arbitrary murders of five more at a kosher supermarket two days later. Overshadowing the mourning of the victims of these attacks, an ideological debate quickly fragmented French citizens into those who affirmed the slogan “Je suis Charlie,” and many others who, despite sharing a sense of shock over the violence, refused to associate themselves with a publication famous for insulting religion in general and Islam in particular. While millions of people rallied in France on January 11th to defend “the freedom of speech against terrorism,” others feared the political instrumentalization of an event attended by demagogic politicians like Nicolas Sarkozy, Viktor Orbán, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Avigdor Liberman. But this gathering was not the only political gesture made in response to the attacks. On January 12th, the implementation of so-called Operation Sentinel enabled the deployment of 11,000 soldiers in major cities across France to patrol airports and train stations, as well as stand guard in front of religious buildings and offices of the press. Police officers, who days earlier carried only handguns, were armed with machine guns and rifles, contributing to an atmosphere of aggression and paranoia—not to mention the economic prosperity of arms manufacturers.

▻https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/architecture-state-emergency-france-harvard-design-magazine-2016

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Avec une série édifiante de photos d’hôtels de police bunker

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A Spatial Report of the February 11 Banlieue Protest Against Police Violence in Bobigny
▻https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/spatial-report-saturdays-banlieue-gathering-police-violence-bobigny

On February 2, 2017, in the banlieue municipality of Aulnay-sous-Bois (North-East), 22-year-old Black man Théo L. was raped by a police officer, while three others were holding him. As of today, Théo is still at the hospital suffering of a 3.5-inch-long tear of his anus. The video showing the crime was quickly spread, provoking outrage country-wide, and making it impossible for police officers to deny the anal penetration with a telescopic baton to which Théo was subjected. However, the officers and the service within the police in charge of the investigation have since made the outrageous claim that what happened was an accident, going as far as forming the phrase “deliberate rape” to describe what the situation was not according to them, in an extremely dangerous redefinition of what a rape actually is: an unambiguous crime with no room whatsoever for interpretation regarding what could be claimed as “attenuating circumstances.” The same night, the cité des 3000 — a cité consists of high-density social housing in low density urbanism — where Théo lives was plunged into darkness while the police undertook numerous identity checks within it. Other banlieues saw young people revolting against armed police officers in full gear operating in neighborhoods that they appear to consider as enemy territory.

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Architecture & Colonialism - The Funambulist Nº10

▻https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/architecture-colonialism

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Towards a Post-Apartheid Palestine: Atlas of the Israeli Settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/architectural-projects/towards-a-post-apartheid-palestine-atlas-of-the-israeli-settlements-

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