The Gates of Gaza: Critical Voices from Israel on October 7 and the War with Hamas

This book offers critical reflection and analysis on the horrific attack by Hamas on October 7th, 2023, and the subsequent devastating war in Gaza. All the pieces in this volume have been written in the span of about a month from October 7 and comprise an archive of a particular discourse taking shape in Israel at this historical juncture, chronicalling the reactions of intellectuals and scholars to unfolding events.

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Lihi Ben Shitrit is the director of the Taub Center for Israel Studies and the Henry Taub Associate Professor of Israel Studies at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. She is also an Associate Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia. She is the author of Righteous Transgressions: Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right (Princeton University Press, 2015) and Women and the Holy City: The Struggle over Jerusalem's Sacred Space (Cambridge University Press, 2020).