One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
von Omar El Akkad
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human.On October 25th, 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 was viewed more than ten million times.One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse.This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the West, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France, and Germany. It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we're undergoing a shift in the so-called “rules-based order,” a generation that understands the West can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar's own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the Western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11.This book is El Akkad's heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a breakup we are watching all over the United States, on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
von Omar El Akkad
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that doesn’t consider you fully human.On October 25th, 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 was viewed more than ten million times.One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse.This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the West, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France, and Germany. It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we're undergoing a shift in the so-called “rules-based order,” a generation that understands the West can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar's own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the Western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11.This book is El Akkad's heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a breakup we are watching all over the United States, on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)
Rezension von CeliA must read.
Rezension von HannaDiese Buch ist aktuell, politisch und ein extrem wichtiger Beitrag zum Zeitgeschehen. Omar El Akkad thematisiert darin nicht nur den Genozid in Gaza, sondern vor allem auch den Umgang des Westens damit. Trotz tagtäglicher Schreckensbilder, eines Urteils des internationalen Gerichtshofs etc. ist unfaire, einseitige Berichterstattung in den Medien, Doppelmoral in der Politik und Cancel Culture im Kulturbetrieb nach wie vor die Regel, wenn es um Palästina geht. El Akkad bezieht sich in seinem Text vor allem auf Nordamerika, vieles kann man aber auch auf Europa umlegen. Seine Argumentation ist gut nachvollziehbar und überzeugt durch eine klare Sprache und konkrete Beispiele, dabei kommt ihm ohne Zweifel seine journalistische Erfahrung zugute. Durch Anekdoten aus seiner Kindheit in Katar und Kanada sowie aus seiner Karriere als Auslandskorrespondent verleiht er dem Buch auch eine persönliche Note.