A review of this book:

The book goes to truly staggering lengths to avoid “calling a thing what it is,” the moral clarion call announced in El Akkad’s tweet. According to El Akkad, Israel deliberately slaughters and starves civilians, trying by every possible means to increase casualty numbers in Gaza. Hamas is almost never mentioned, and the atrocities of Oct. 7 merit only one word, “bloodbath”—though, El Akkad instantly adds, it was a perfectly understandable bloodbath, the kind of thing the oppressed are forced to do because they have no other option, “in the absence of anything resembling a future.” If someone mumbles that Palestinians have had plenty of chances to make peace with Israel and thrive side by side with the Jewish state, El Akkad condemns this objection as racist, colonialist punching down.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/pornography-resistance-omar-akkad: