Dr. Daniel Rickenbacher is a research associate at the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and a research fellow of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. Between 2014 and 2018, Dr Rickenbacher held a position as scientific assistant to the chair of Strategic Studies at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, where he conducted research and taught on current military conflicts and terrorism.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.