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    The Road to October 7
    Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the Jews

    Rafael Medoff (Author)

    9780827615748

    Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2025

    368 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    “Compelling reading for anyone who believes in the security of the State of Israel.”-Seymour D. Reich, former chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and past president of B’nai B’rith International
    “I cannot imagine a more important book for the Jewish community and indeed all human rights advocates than this brilliant volume.”-Neil J. Kressel, author of Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror
    “A champion of Jewish memory and an expert on the Jews’ abandonment during the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff confronts the Hamas attack, the global explosion of antisemitism, and the historical lessons that can help guide the Jewish future.”-Walter Reich, former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    “Even politically hostile readers will have a hard time contesting the conclusions in Rafael Medoff’s extensively researched, methodical, data-driven, and accessible volume. It should be read by everyone who wants to understand October 7 in historical context.”-Eunice G. Pollack, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of American Jewish History

    The Road to October 7 examines what paved the way for the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and its aftermath.

    Part 1, “The Present,” documents the Hamas invasion, the rise of Hamas, the education of Palestinian Arab children to hate and kill, the diplomatic decisions that helped enable the attack, and the propagation of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish libels.

    Part 2, “The Past,” analyzes how in both method and ideology, the Hamas assault echoed the pogroms in medieval Europe, Czarist Russia, and Ukraine; the Holocaust; and a century of Palestinian Arab terrorism. It also examines select American universities’ cultivation of friendly relations with Nazi Germany in the 1930s (the same universities that tolerated pro-Hamas protests after October 7) and October 7 as a turning point in the long history of antisemitism.

    Readers will emerge with important insights on the Hamas attack, antisemitic education in Palestinian Arab society, pro-Hamas groups on U.S. campuses, the responses of women’s and human rights organizations to mass sexual violence, misconceptions and fabrications about Israel’s conduct in the ensuing war, and why October 7 needs to be viewed as one segment of both the century-long Palestinian Arab war and the centuries-old international war against the Jewish people.
     

    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

     
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