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One day, everyone will have always been against this

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On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “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.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.

As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.

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Series Title

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Call Number

920 AKK o

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf., 2025

Collation

187 p. ; 22 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781524712815

Classification

900

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Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

World History
Memoir

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Statement of Responsibility

Omar El Akkad

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Level

High School

Book Segment

Reading for pleasure

Reading Level

Independent

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