One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

De: Omar El Akkad

Narrado por: Omar El Akkad

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values

“I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it.”—Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There

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.

This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date, a heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the United States, in family rooms, on college campuses, on city streets; the consequences of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.

©2025 Omar El Akkad (P)2025 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"It is difficult to understand the nature of a true rupture while it is still tearing through the fabric of our world. Yet that is precisely what Omar El Akkad has accomplished, putting broken heart and shredded illusions into words with tremendous insight, skill and courage. A unique and urgently needed book.—Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger

"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto.... With precision and passion, [El Akkad] compels readers to close the emotional distance between 'us' and 'them' and to consider the immense suffering of civilians with renewed urgency."—The New York Times

"One Day is powerful, angry, but always compelling in its moral logic, and damn hard to put down.... by the end my heart was drumming.... For me it was cathartic, almost spiritual....It is an important book, a must-read"—Dina Nayeri, The Guardian

Quality of writing-searing

Insightful look at worldwide injustice . Seeing different countries and cultures strengths and . Truth telling in personal narrative and journalistic eye for detail

Thank you 🙏🏽

Everything about this book was everything we all need to know, hear, consider, and act upon.

Outstanding - Should be required reading

Outstanding. This should be required reading, especially for all Americans. It is beautifully written and hauntingly insightful. Unfortunately, in the United States today, millions of parents are more afraid of their children learning America's true history than they are of ensuring that the mistakes of the past are not repeated. When your nation develops a global reputation for drowning out morality and decency with pathetic, jingoistic taunts of 'USA! USA! USA!' it is hard to keep from being cynical. When you live in a culture that considers ANY criticism, no matter how sincere, as 'HATRED FOR AMERICA!", speaking out can feel like an exercise in futility.

I greatly admire Akkad and his willingness to speak out. He provides a perspective I think few Americans often hear, and one that is absolutely crucial that they do.

Western liberalism’s broken moral compass

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is a profound and unflinching examination of Western liberalism’s moral contradictions, particularly in response to the devastation in Gaza. El Akkad, drawing from his rich background as a journalist and novelist, offers a collection of ten interrelated essays that weave personal narrative with incisive critique. His measured yet impactful prose challenges readers to confront the ethical implications of silence and complicity in the face of systemic violence.

Superb work of non-fiction

This is a document of this time in history that needs to be read far and wide. Well done, Omar El Akkad.

Fantastic piece of truth

I truly hope this changes some hearts and minds on the massacre of human beings that is going on.

Powerful and Difficult Must Read

Having spent the past nearly 18 months watching the horrors of a gen*cide live streamed on my phone; having read books, listened to people on the ground, watched documentaries and histories of what has really been happening in Palestine; and refusing to look away no matter how gruesome and appalling the images have been, the experience has been indescribable. But Omar eloquently puts it all into words.

It's heartbreaking and disappointing to acknowledge how evil has been playing out before our eyes and who has been enabling it.

I have learned a lot over the past nearly year and a half. I studied history that we were never taught. Witnessed scenes of terror and cruelty that I couldn't have imagined before. But one of the most striking things I've seen is the love and compassion of the people who are targeted. Their strength is commendable though I wish it wasn't necessary.

I will never be the same. Life will never be the same.

Powerful writing

Brutal honesty and accountability to the horrors happening to human beings. My heart is incredibly heavy, I am glad I listened to his reading. He is a powerful writer. Thank you

Liberals! Read This!

Gaza gets the exposition it deserves. rhe author's closeness, yer separation from Gaza puts him in a unique position to write on the genocide

Excellent view of Canadian / American Arab expat. if the West False Morality claims

Zionism, Western Capitalism and the American Empior role in the 100 years war, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of the indiginous Palestinians,