What sets Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide apart from this polarized discourse is its determined focus on the physical and its analytical tone. What sets Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide apart from this polarized discourse is its determined focus on the physical and its analytical tone. Their efforts produced the “Cartography of Genocide,” an interactive and constantly evolving digital map that details “an organized and designed campaign to destroy Palestinian life in Gaza.” “The monochrome desert of upturned soil is the material signature of Israel’s genocide,” Weizman writes. He makes the case for considering Israel’s destruction of the living conditions in Gaza through starvation and environmental degradation, not only direct killing and expulsion, as a core part of the essential meaning of genocide.