Why read One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This?

Book cover of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Book description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS • 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.

"[A] bracing memoir…

Explore

Topics

Coming soon!

Genres

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

3 authors picked One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Doug Bradley

Author

Powerful, poignant, and raw. Painful too. Writing is exceptional; the world is overwhelming.

From Doug's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Elliot Dolan-Evans

Author

Brilliant book that is a painful exploration into the global response to Israeli's genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The book also goes more deeply into the broader structures of the Western world and identifies how these bases have fundamentally given rise to the allowance of such horrors to be enacted upon a captured population. This is a crucial read.

From Elliot's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Rachel A. Rosen

Author

Just stop whatever you're doing and read this, okay?

Especially if you're in the West. Especially if you think you're basically a good person, muddling through. Especially if you've been afraid to talk about Gaza because of what people might think about you. I especially challenge liberal Zionists to read it. But everyone. Read it. I wish I could put it on 24/7 audiobook and play it for everyone in any kind of leadership position, anyone who can do anything, no matter how small. Read it.

From Rachel's 3 favorite reads in 2025.