Rafael Medoff

The Road to October 7

Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the Jews

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Produktbeschreibung

Rafael Medoff examines what paved the way to the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and its aftermath.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780827615748
• ISBN-10: 0827615744
• Artikelnr.: 73603817

Autorenporträt

Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and coeditor of the institute’s online Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust. He has written more than twenty books, including The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (JPS, 2019) and America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (JPS, 2022).  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. The Present: Understanding October 7 and Its Aftermath
1. In the Cities of Slaughter
The Ideology behind October 7
Attack on the Music Festival
Devastation of Towns and Kibbutzim
How They Died
The Collaborators
Sexual Violence
Parading the Hostages
Abuse of the Hostages
“In the City of Slaughter”
2. The Rise and Strategy of Hamas
Jews and Muslims in Gaza
Terror from Gaza, Then and Now
Islam and the Jews
The Birth of Palestinian Nationalism
New Audiences for Mein Kampf
The Birth of Hamas
Hamas Terror
Hamas in Power
Military Challenges after October 7
Terror Centers in Universities and Hospitals
3. Killers Are Made, Not Born
Jihad Education in Schools
UNRWA’s Hate Education
Matriculation and Martyrdom
PA Responses to Curricula Criticism
Schools Named after Killers
Hateful TV and Video
Extracurricular Activities Promoting Terrorism
Martyr Games
Summer Camps of Terror
Terrorist Role Models for Girls
Raising Martyrs
Aspiring to Martyrdom
4. The War on the Truth
Staged Disruptions
October 7 Denial
Blood Libels, Old and New
The Gaza Genocide Blood Libel
The Famine Lie
Truth as Casualty: World War II Lessons
Feminists Excusing Hamas Rapes
Human Wrongs by Human Rights Advocates
5. The War on Campus
Students for Justice in Palestine
Jewish Students Assaulted
How Universities Responded
Harvard
Columbia
MIT
Yale
George Washington University
University of Pennsylvania
Showdown in Congress
The Second Explosion
Ignorant Protesters
Tent Encampments and Student Demands
Appeasing Extremism
Fizzled Protests
The First Anniversary
Addressing the Problem
Part 2: The Past: Tracing the Echoes of History
6. Historical Parallels to October 7
The Crusaders
Medieval Blood Libels
Glorification of Horror
Cossack Massacres
Terror in Russia
Terror in Ukraine
Arab Terror, Then and Now
The Role of Antisemitic Ideology
Civilian Collaborators
Raising German Youth to Kill
Genocide Trophies
7. Universities and the Nazis
Harvard
Columbia
MIT
Yale
George Washington University
Isolationism on Campus
Other Troubling Echoes
8. Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
Emergence of Secular Antisemitism
Antisemitism in America
Anti-Zionism, Then and Now
Postwar Changes in Antisemitism
The U.S. Government vs. Antisemitism
Defining Antisemitism
Facing the New Antisemitism
BDS and Antisemitism
Biden and Harris Break New Ground
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index