Omar El Akkad became famous for a tweet. On Oct. 25, 2023, he posted on X, “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 account- able, everyone will always have been against this.” By “this,” the thing everyone should be against, El Akkad meant not Hamas burning people alive and murdering children in front of their parents, but instead Israel’s still-na- scent military response. The tweet was liked by more than 10 million people.
