“I had the privilege of obliviousness. I saw the fractures. I saw these moments where there was a great disconnect between the virtus that are expressed and the reality that is enacted”. Novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad identifies the Palestinian genocide as a point of no return for the West; a historical moment that will be remembered as the one in which millions of people around the world stopped believing in the promises of Western democracy, viewing the rules-based, liberal order as merely a hypocritical excuse for further violence and abuse. I had the pleasure of meeting Omar and photographing him during the presentation of his book "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This".