One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This-Omar El Akkad

On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Egyptian-born Canadian-American novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad put out a tweet that went viral: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." Exploring this theme further, the book chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, and Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals that the response to Gaza has exposed as bold-faced hypocrisy and institutional malignity.

Publisher: Knopf     2025     208 pages

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