On October 25, 2023, just two weeks into Israel’s siege of Gaza, Egyptian-born author Omar El Akkad reposted a video on X of a leveled city block, writing , “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.”

His words, reposted 58,000 times, captured a widespread preemptive despair. The hypocrisy of global liberalism, it seemed, would accommodate barbarity until the precise moment that its own survival required a brazen revision. Twenty-one months later, that bitter prophecy, almost claustrophobic in its parsimony, seems more likely all the time: We will not account for this crime until it has been accomplished.

Over the past few weeks as starvation in G

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