Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
, has led El Akkad to view the cracks in the Free World, which he had continued to believe in – even through the major damage wrought by the war on terror – as no longer salvageable. And he sees the gap in perceptions between the developed West and the rest of the world as unbridgeable, noting at one point that “one of the hallmarks of western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism”.
The World After Gaza, like El Akkad’s book, looks to the future in its title, but it is mostly an intellectual genealogy of how Israel’s line, even as it has hardened under a far-right government, has become so readily accepted by western elites who were not so receptive in the early years of Israel’s existence.
Both El Akkad and Mishra repeatedly call Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘genocide’. It has become common for supporters of Israel to dismiss such a description as inflammatory and unserious This is where Mishra and El Akkad diverge, however. Whereas the latter sees a future in which western intelligentsias cynically retrofit their stances on Gaza and whitewash their past complaisance, Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes on the whole will remain the same. Even as he salutes young protesters who have risked employment prospects by taking part in protests, he points to a general reluctance on the part of the West to reckon with the legacy of colonialism.
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