At the height of the “War on Terror,” Gada Mahrouse’s Conflicted Commitments comes at a time when the terms of transnational solidarity face a silent crisis. As efforts of anti-war and peace movements fail to alleviate the harms of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel-Palestine and Syria, her book invites us to consider the ethical question of what it means to engage in transnational solidarity at a time when solidarity activists are faced with the devastating failure of traditional social movement practices to oppose modern warfare. Her book confronts the ethics of solidarity wherein the desire of activism to “do good” is set within the overwhelming conditions of the present: the West’s military industrial complex, the violence of the crumbling edifices of dictatorships in the Middle East and the rise of groups like ISIS/ISIL.