October 7 : the wars over words and deeds / edited by Donna Robinson Divine and Asaf Romirowsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Divine, Donna Robinson, 1941- editor.

Romirowsky, Asaf, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023.

Israel-Hamas War, 2023-.

Israel-Hamas War, 2023---Public opinion.

Antisemitism--History--21st century.

Antisemitism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2025.

Summary:

"October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds is a collection of essays by scholars that seeks to analyze how words and imagery used to categorize the violence and savagery of the October 7th assaults by Hamas have been used to reframe the historical narrative of this century-long conflict into an avalanche of antisemitism and cultural toxicity that has attempted to reshape American society, impacting politics, media, and academia.Edited by Jewish studies scholar and Middle East political scientist Donna Robinson Divine, and Asaf Romirowsky, historian and the executive director of both the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), the essays collected in October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds offer a mixture of data-driven analysis with a careful account of narratives and ideology to measure how much of a footprint October 7 leaves on war and peace in the world going forward.October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds exposes how Hamas savagery cast a destructive shadow not only over the men, women, and children caught on the battlefields of Gaza but also over the educators and journalists expected to explain why this atrocity occurred. Despite its brutality, Hamas won substantial support on campuses, in the media, and from an array of progressive movements. This terrorist organization's attacks, astonishing in their ambition, can only be fully understood by examining not only what has happened to Israel, Gaza, and to the Middle East but also to a world forced to respond to domestic protests echoing and supporting Hamas' savagery. This distinctive volume illustrates the importance of engaging these complex issues with the rigors of scholarly tools. Only with these skills can the deeper story of October 7 be fully told. An essay from an undergraduate in the volume clarifies not only the importance of teaching students how to think about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, not what to think about it, but also that it can be done. The book shows that unless the nightmare that began on this fateful day is thoroughly understood, we will all be condemned to repeating and reliving it"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Introduction : October 7 : The wars over words and deeds / Asaf Romirowsky

The IDF : Handling strategic and operational criticism in Gaza / Andrew Fox

Tragedy and responsibility : The debate over casualties in Gaza / David Adesnik

Antisemitism is about Semites like dolichocephaly is about language / Franck Salameh

What Hamas really wants : The ideology of the Islamic Resistance Movement / Cole Bunzel

Does terrorism succeed? New lessons from Hamas, the global intifada, and antisemitism in America / Max Abrahms

Deterrence after October 7 / Ben Fishman

US–Israel relations in the wake of October 7 / Jonathan Rynhold

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil : The erasure of Hamas in UN human rights narratives, and the implications after October 7 / Anne Herzberg

Higher education responds to October 7 / KC Johnson

The political economy of antisemitism and Israel hatred in twenty-first-century America / Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky

Fruit of the land / Aviya Cammy and Justin Cammy

Locating sexual violence : October 7 and its aftermath, historically conceptualized / Skylar Ball

From the Cold War to university campuses today : The USSR, the Third World, and contemporary antizionist discourse / Izabella Tabarovsky

Consensus and polarization in the Israeli party system in the aftermath of October 7 / Csaba Nikolenyi

Conclusion : October 7—The wars over words and deeds—taking stock / Donna Robinson Divine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed December 31, 2025).

ISBN:

9798897830763

9798897830770

OCLC:

1555173509

Access Restriction:

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