Omar El Akkad author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on how the west failed Gaza

Listen to this episode from Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning on Spotify. "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." On October 25 2023, novelist Omar El Akkad posted this message on X.On Free State today Omar El Akkad joins Joe and Dionto talk about how the world looked away. His magisterial new book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This details the complicity of the west. Gaza is enduring a famine and Israel maintains a blockade where children’s hunger is a weapon of war and an instrument of monumental cruelty. Omar’s voice is a compelling and necessary counterpoint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.