{"product_id":"october-7-the-wars-over-words-and-deeds-hardcover-2","title":"October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAsaf Romirowsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDonna Robinson Divine\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOctober 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited 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 \u003ci\u003eOctober 7: The Wars Over Words\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOctober 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsaf Romirowsky\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomirowsky's publicly engaged scholarship has been featured in the\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNational Interest\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Interest\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTimes of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYnet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e, among other online and print media outlets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna Robinson Divine\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the author of many scholarly articles on a variety of topics in Middle East history and politics and the books \u003ci\u003eWomen Living Change\u003c\/i\u003e (Women in the Political Economy) (with Susan C. Bourque), \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e. Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eExiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454011654365,"sku":"9798897830756","price":100.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/zpXgRLKNcG9798897830756_ca45a5ce-8952-4576-a69d-1f14d1a8fb4a.webp?v=1771568486","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/october-7-the-wars-over-words-and-deeds-hardcover-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}