Academic Studies Press, 2025, ISBN-13: 979-8897830756, 344 pages.

October 7: The Wars over Words and Deeds

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, the suffering of Gaza civilians, and the devastation of the war.  As the introduction describes: “Not only does this book belong in the classroom, it is the classroom which has shaped its contents.” 

The book includes essays by Csaba Nikolenyi, AIS President and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel at Concordia University,  Jonathan Rynhold, professor at Bar Ilan University and the academic director of the University’s Jonathan Sacks Institute and senior researcher at Bar-Ilan’s Begin-Sadat Institute for Strategic Studies, Andrew Fox, Henry Jackson Society, Cole Bunzel, Hoover Institution, Isabella Tabarowsky, Wilson Center, KC Johnson, Brooklyn College, and David Adesnik, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and Professor Emerita of Government at Smith College.

Asaf Romirowsky is executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) and a professor (affiliate) at the University of Haifa.