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.
5 有用 NoNo 2025-06-24 06:30:55 美国
刚看完Andor 后劲十足 自然也最喜欢resistance那篇:帝国是谁 反抗军又是谁?不能更明显。 是啊 哪一个游子 背井离乡 是为了面对这种失望?Freedom to be left alone就这么难吗? 最后容我吐槽,看豆瓣评论,说作者没有对muslim方进行反省?两眼一黑……拜托,这都什么时候了,还讲这种话干嘛。举个不恰当的例子,这就好比,明明犹太人正被抓起来关进集中营,你却在一边“理... 刚看完Andor 后劲十足 自然也最喜欢resistance那篇:帝国是谁 反抗军又是谁?不能更明显。 是啊 哪一个游子 背井离乡 是为了面对这种失望?Freedom to be left alone就这么难吗? 最后容我吐槽,看豆瓣评论,说作者没有对muslim方进行反省?两眼一黑……拜托,这都什么时候了,还讲这种话干嘛。举个不恰当的例子,这就好比,明明犹太人正被抓起来关进集中营,你却在一边“理中客”让犹太人进行反思一样毫无意义。事到如今,当一方被另一方以压倒性力量屠杀/种族灭绝,在这种情况下,还要被压迫的一方再反思什么呢?又该反思什么? (展开)
2 有用 untamedheart 2025-03-29 01:36:22 美国
写的是好的,前三分之一看的非常卷入,并且愤慨。对西方的全面失望,左边的虚伪和右边的彻底自私邪恶。但直到中间,还没有对哈马斯,或者对muslin方没有一丝一毫反省,就开始失去我了。当然是苦难,无尽的苦难。但如果每一方都永远执着于诉说自己的受害人经历,而拒绝面对自己这方也有给对方带来痛苦,那问题就永远只能恶化。为什么认识双方都经历苦难,都有责任,就这么难呢?
1 有用 归迟 2025-07-04 16:14:43 北京
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1 有用 左岸单行道 2025-11-24 03:06:00 美国
今年读到的最好的非虚构之一,感同身受。
0 有用 Chelsea📚 2025-11-11 15:28:24 浙江
我对政治类话题没什么兴趣,但这本书开始的部分夹杂着传记特别吸引我,感觉从来没有读过这样的语言和风格。中间单纯批判有些重复无聊,但后两章写得还不错。毕竟是一本关于恨的书,可能很难写得云淡风轻。