In 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,' Omar El Akkad explores the devastation of Gaza and the widening gap between America and the Middle East. Through a fusion of polemic and memoir, El Akkad seeks to discomfit readers and force them to view Palestinian victims as 'us' rather than 'them.' The book delves into the collective consciousness shaped by the need to evade evidence of political and environmental catastrophe, and serves as a cry against our tolerance for other people's calamities.