Apartheid

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Labib Nasir, Rana Malki, George Birdseed, Basem Al-Khoury, Mohamed Bhabha, Walid
Batrawi, Nisreen Abu-Zayyad, Dima Khalidi, Amahl Bishara, Peter Lagerqvist, Zahra
Khalidi, Natasha Khalidi, and my landlord, landlady, and neighbors (I am so sorry I forgot
their names, except Ghada) in al-Masyoun, a beautiful part of Ramallah.
Special thanks, also, to the Gesellschaft für Phänomenologie und kritische
Anthropologie, Stefan Lutschinger, Paul Yankey, Nomasonto Mzimela Buchmann, Dejana
Popic, Nyaradzo Chimhandamba, Thomas Muttwill, Axel Maireder, Alia Rayyan, Joharah
Baker, Omar Karmi, Rachel Coen, Cornelius Zehetner, Martin Bernal, Sven-Eric Liedman,
Eva-Lena Dahl, Bo Lindberg, Ingemar Nilsson, Lennart Olausson, Claire Elmquist, Ziauddin
Sardar, Silvia Zaszlos, Maksud Djavadov, Julia Valsky, Jamel Ben Abdeljelil, Sonia al-
Dulayme, Nader Kraitt, Ulli Pölzl, Magda Abu-Fadil, Janina Struk, Tim Gopsill, Brian
Whitaker, to everybody at Biblioteca Alexandrina, especially Mostafa El-Abbadi and Tuula
Athen, to Sonia and Zahra Dabbous at the American University in Cairo, and to Lydia Wazir,
Peter Horn, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Gudrun Harrer, Sibongile Mzimela, Nisreen Mirza, Troy
Blacklaws, Sandya Gain, Stephanie Mautner Markhof, Ulrike Gamsjäger, Karla Bavoljak,
Kristina Ahlinder, Reena Varghese, Niklas Werklund, Issa Mansaray, Kawther Salam, Marta
Srokosz, Barbara Trionfi, Ömer Oguz, Marcello Scarone, David Dadge, Lydia El-Khouri,
Peter Goff, Diana Orlova, Katherine Powers, Christiane Klint, Michael Kudlak, Eva Maria
Grabmair, Susanne Winklehner, Kai Hafez, Vladimir Ivkovic, Sigrid Stangl, Alain Kanyinda,
Franz Wimmer, Michael Benedikt, Salah Musa, John Patillo-Hess, Wadie Abunassar, Uri
Strauss, Naomi Sakr, Thabisile Hlatshwayo-Moleah, Marilia Nelson, Christoph Jaber, LSP
(the Last Standing Poet), Mazin Elfehaid, Christopher Beer, Captain Eddie Mohammad,
Selma Tankovic, Katharina List, Rumiana Dimitrova, Josef Gelernter, Peter Donelan, Stefan
Szwarga (RIP), Martin von Brüll, Hilary D. Claggett, Anne Beech, Natalie Sasser, Karin Kail,
Ilginay Göbüt, Arturo Cruz-Esparza, Irene Stöckl, and Glenn W. Leaper. Many others have
contributed in some way or another to this investigation. To list them would be even more
cumbersome for the reader. Although not mentioned by name here, they are not forgotten and
my gratitude pertains to them as well. Any mistakes in this text are of course my sole
responsibility.
In publishing this text online, I wish to reach as many readers as possible.
Unfortunately, many book publishers, especially university presses, have turned down my
book proposals. If they replied at all, they referred to the length of the manuscript. I do
appreciate the high printing costs associated with a text of this magnitude. But two replied
with an additional explanation or warning to me that there is currently a widespread fear of
being accused of anti-semitism among publishers confronted with decisions whether to
publish criticism of Israel or not. All I can do is to refer, without bitterness or satisfaction, to
Chapter II.9.3, and to footnote 169, below.