One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This

It’s hard for me to write about Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This. Without Getting Into It there’s a lot for me wrapped up in how individuals could and have responded to the ongoing genocide in Gaza – along with our collective obligations to do anything/more.

So with that – here’s what I offer: The memoir follows El Akkad’s life in journalism and his coverage of the genocide in Gaza and his righteous sense that too much of the west is ready to ignore that genocide – and all the ways media and government work to reinforce the individual effort to Not Know (and how that Not Knowing is really about not jeopardizing any of the power and comfort we have). El Akkad asks the reader not only how they are benefiting from their indifference or inaction, but also calls on the reader to do more, well really, to do anything.

It’s a powerful book and one you should read, and then one to take with you as you think about what you are doing, or not doing, and why in response to the continued genocide.