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Author:   Asaf Romirowsky ,  Donna Robinson Divine
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
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9798897830756

Pages:   344
Publication Date:   06 November 2025
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: October 7: A Vision of the World [and Wars] to Come Asaf Romirowsky PART 1: THE VIOLENCE AND THE MYTHS Chapter 1: The IDF: Handling Strategic and Operational Criticism in Gaza Andrew Fox Chapter 2: Tragedy and Responsibility: The Debate over Casualties in Gaza David Adesnik Chapter 3: Antisemitism Is About Semites Like Dolichocephaly Is About Language Franck Salameh Chapter 4: What Hamas Really Wants: The Ideology of the Islamic Resistance Movement Cole Bunzel PART 2: THE GLOBAL DELUSIONS Chapter 5: Does Terrorism Succeed? New Lessons from Hamas, the Global Intifada, and Antisemitism in America Max Abrahms Chapter 6: Deterrence after October 7 Ben Fishman Chapter 7: US-Israel Relations in the Wake of October 7 Jonathan Rynhold Chapter 8: 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 PART 3: THE CAMPUS AND THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE Chapter 9: Higher Education Responds to October 7 KC Johnson Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Antisemitism and Israel Hatred in Twenty-First-Century America Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky Chapter 11: Fruit of the Land Aviya Cammy and Justin Cammy Chapter 12: Locating Sexual Violence: October 7 and Its Aftermath, Historically Conceptualized Skylar Ball Chapter 13: From the Cold War to University Campuses Today: The USSR, the Third World, and Contemporary Antizionist Discourse Izabella Tabarovsky Part 4: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AND THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT Chapter 14: 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

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“This ambitious collection tackles a controversial topic, and it does so boldly and thoroughly. The essays provide a rich variety of views, diverse in focus, methodology, and findings. There are scholars of gender here, as well as military strategists, but also those who study terrorism, domestic politics, and antisemitism. There are humanities and social science scholars, quantitative and qualitative. An important, ambitious, and provocative read!”  —Ron Hassner, Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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Asaf Romirowsky, PhD, is the 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. Trained as a Middle East historian, he holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean studies from King's College London and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as on Israeli and Zionist history. In 2013, he co-authored (with Alexander H. Joffe) Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief. Romirowsky's publicly engaged scholarship has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the National Interest, the American Interest, the New Republic, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post, Ynet, and Tablet, among other online and print media outlets. Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and Professor Emerita of Government at Smith College, where she taught a variety of courses on Middle East Politics. Fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish, she has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, and the Hebrew University, fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and Mellon Foundation, and won several Fulbright grants. She is the author of many scholarly articles on a variety of topics in Middle East history and politics and the books Women Living Change (Women in the Political Economy) (with Susan C. Bourque), Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, and Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Her latest book is Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine. She was named the Katharine Asher Engel Lecturer at Smith College for the academic year in recognition of her scholarly achievements and Smith's Honored Professor for excellence in teaching.

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