The Western liberal’s moral collapse in Gaza

“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” by Omar El Akkad, Canongate, 2025.

On October 24, 2023, two and a half weeks after Hamas’ attack on Israel, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported a grim new record: Israel’s bombardment of the Strip had killed 704 Palestinians in the previous 24 hours alone. The next day, Egyptian-Canadian writer Omar El Akkad posted a now famous sentence…