Gabriel Noah Brahm is Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University, where he specializes in Israeli Literature, literary theory, and film studies. He is currently appointed as Visiting Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and Senior Research Fellow at University of Haifa’s Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism. He is a longtime Advisory Editor of Fathom, and a dual American-Israeli citizen. Follow him on Twitter @Brahmski.
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.