Don’t Look Away: The Children Are Dying and the World Is Watching: Gaza’s Genocide, Denial, and Empire’s Moral Decay
About this ebook
In Don't Look Away, award-winning Canadian journalist Jorah Kai confronts head-on one of the most devastating humanitarian crises of our time. What began as a personal awakening—sparked by his granddaughter Naomi's birth and the unbearable images of children dying under siege—becomes a searing meditation on conscience, complicity, and courage.
Blending frontline reportage, historical documentation, and moral testimony, Kai challenges readers not just to learn, but to feel—to reckon. He draws on legal frameworks, Jewish and Palestinian voices, and the blunt facts of genocide and apartheid to expose the cost of global indifference. In doing so, he offers no easy comfort—only the conviction that truth-telling is the first step toward justice.
Jorah Kai dismantles the moral gaslighting that brands dissent as "hatred," proving that equating critics of genocide with bigots isn't a defense of Jews—it's an unsustainable defense of apartheid.
Don't Look Away is not a call to arms. It is a call to heart: to witness. To act. To refuse silence in the face of atrocity. This is not a book about politics. It is a book about children, about the stories we tell—and the ones we're too afraid to face.
Released June 15, 2025, in solidarity with the Global March to Gaza—tens of thousands of activists from over fifty countries rallying at the gates of Rafah to demand an end to siege and starvation—this book joins their cry: Enough. Let it be said that we did not stay silent.
About the author
Jorah Kai is an award-winning Canadian author, journalist, and educator whose work bridges storytelling, truth-telling, and cultural commentary. After an early career as a touring musician and DJ, Kai transitioned into writing and teaching, eventually settling in Chongqing, China, where he has taught English, literature, and art history since 2014.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kai became the first Canadian journalist in China to contribute frontline reports for CTV News, earning international recognition for his early warnings and prescient analysis. His nonfiction works—including Kai’s Diary, The Invisible War, Year of the Rat, and Aye of the Tiger—blend memoir with media critique and philosophical inquiry. His debut novel, Amos the Amazing, became an international bestseller. The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu showcased his literary range through a bold fusion of horror and cosmic satire, while Sad Songs from an Old Goth in a Tree offered a haunting collection of lyrics and melancholic poetry.
Don’t Look Away marks a moral turning point. Written in the face of unspeakable atrocity, it represents Kai’s most urgent and courageous work to date. Galvanized by the global silence surrounding the mass killing of children in Gaza—and by the birth of his granddaughter, Naomi—he now writes not only to document but to awaken.
Kai splits his time between East and West, drawing inspiration from beaches, classrooms, and late-night comment sections. His work is cinematic, defiant, and deeply human.
Learn more at jorahkai.com.
