"Every idea or system of ideas exists somewhere, it is mixed in with historical circumstances, it is part of what one may very simply call 'reality.' " Edward Said wrote these words to critique the political idea of Zionism as a historical project whose concrete realization somewhere -- present-day Palestine -- reveals both its intellectual/political provenance in nineteenth-century European imperialism and its practical effectivity as a system of accumulation and displacement, crucially dependent on the political, economic, and cultural apparatuses of twentieth-century U.S. global hegemony. Said's emphasis on the place of the idea of Zionism, historically and geographically (against the placeless world of abstraction within which ideas are said to exist), was also a passionate affirmation of the embodied locus of social experience of Zionism's violent effects -- Palestinians, as its victims -- from which standpoint an oppositional knowledge of and struggle against this effective reality could be produced. The theoretical/political accent on somewhere opposed not only the abstract idealism that upholds international liberal hegemonic support of Zionism, but also the practical and symbolic erasure of Palestinian being and human value -- somebody/ some people -- that the imperialist presumption of the emptiness of the land sought to achieve.