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SUMMARY:August 2026 - One Day\, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  -Omar ElAkkad
LOCATION:Delaney's The Irish Pub\, Basement
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 32% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nFor our eighth book of 2026\, we reading Omar El Akkad's 
 acclaimed memoir.\n\n'On October 25\, 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 has been viewed more than 10 million times.
 \n\nAs an immigrant who came to the West\, El Akkad believed that it promi
 sed freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years\, re
 porting on the War on Terror\, Ferguson\, climate change\, Black Lives Mat
 ter protests\, and more\, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza\,
  El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises i
 s a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has ne
 ver intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigran
 ts\, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege.\n\nOne Day\, E
 veryone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful 
 realization\, a moral grappling with what it means\, as a citizen of the U
 .S.\, as a father\, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of ca
 rnage.'\n\nThis book is available on Kindle. For international delivery yo
 u can find it from Blackwells and it may also be available at the library 
 or an English language book store.\n\nWe are a "real" book club\, which me
 ans we do read the book before the meet-up and discuss it. New members are
  always welcome.\n\nWe need to notify the venue about how many will attend
 \, so please make sure your RSVP status is accurate.\n\nHope to see you th
 ere!
URL:https://www.meetup.com/hong-kong-ladies-book-club/events/312938864/
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