Posted on 12/10/2023 8:40:57 AM PST by DFG
Recent occurrences in the Middle East resulted a “divisive” architecture event this past Thursday at Ohio State University.
According to the OSU National Association of Minority Landscape Architects’ Abdul-Azeez Ahmad, the December 7 “Justice Centered Design” confab came about due to “the illegal Israeli occupation and everything happening in Palestine.”
The event featured a screening of Israeli architect Eyal Weizman’s film “The Architecture of Violence” along with a panel discussion, The Lantern reports.
The film “takes [the viewer] through the eyes of hostile architecture that was designed by the Israeli occupation to subjugate and to keep the Palestinians living in an apartheid state,” Ahmad said.
In a 2014 Al Jazeera article Weizman described the “architecture and the built environment” near and around the West Bank as a “kind of slow violence.”
“The occupation is an environment that was conceived to strangulate Palestinian communities, villages and towns, to create an environment that would be unliveable [sic] for the people there,” Weizman said.
He added it’s a “landscape where everything, from walls and roads, terraces and sewage, to settlements and surveillance are designed to ensure the separation of the two peoples, while simultaneously maintaining control.”
Ahmad said the OSU event “goes deeper” than just what’s going on in Israel and Gaza — it’s also about “intersectionality and how that affects how walls are built in America as well.”
“It is important to put an emphasis on a more equitable world,” Ahmad said. “I hope the goal for many designers in architecture and landscape architecture is to take the people who have been ignored throughout history, whether it’s people with physical disabilities, different races or ethnicities, into account.”
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Uh, much like the non existent “trans gender” thing, the “palestine” thing also never existed. History must be evil eh?
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This guy Abdul-Azeez Ahmad sounds like he had a Roto Rooter whip up his brains a little. What a line of malarkey!
“...settlements and surveillance are designed to ensure the separation of the two peoples, while simultaneously maintaining control.”
That’s what you get when your next-door neighbor screeches “Death to YOU” for decades and sends in invading armies to kill your innocent civilians.
Cry me a river, Awad.
“Ahmad said the OSU event “goes deeper” . . .”
Guess that makes sense if your architectural practice focuses on tunnels and rat holes and such.
Considering that the Palestinians and other observant Muslims believe that Allah commands them to kill Jews, it is hard to imagine the Israelis doing anything less then they have, while most of the world would have forcibly ended the Palestinians as an organized society had they faced such a threat. Indeed, Arab countries do not want Palestinians among them because they have a well-deserved reputation for terrorism and criminality against their hosts and neighbors even as refugees.
B.S. Many of the walls being pictured as “guilty” are only necessitated by the inability of the Palestinians alone to insure security for the Israelis.
Were the Arabs choosing paths of peace with Israeal and the Isrealis, most of what the Palestinians resent about Isreali security measures would pass away. But no, the Arabs are akways looking for some way to go back to 1948 and dictate the landscape of the area to the Jews. and so they keep living in their own resentment of not being able to do that, of not getting the world to unilaterally force their solution on Israel.
If Germans, and French, and Czechs, and Poles and many others in Europe lived with such a mindset, there never would have been an end to wars in Europe between 1945 and Putin’s latest territorial putsch. At some point some folks have to acceot that “their losses are not greater than they are”, and move on in peace with that. Many folks have had to do that throughout history and its long past time that the Arabs of Palestine did that.
“...“the illegal Israeli occupation and everything happening in Palestine.”
Seems to me the Israelis have controlled Palestine, that actually doesn’t exist, since the mid 1960’s determined by surrender results from the seven day war. Hamas got in through Israeli allowed elections in 2006. So who is the squatter here?
wy69
Well, they can’t very well hold a rally for the National College Football Championship.
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