Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar with the Kennan Institute (Wilson Center) in Washington, DC. She focuses on the history of Cold War, Soviet anti-Zionism, Holocaust in the USSR, and politics of memory in the post-Soviet space. Her publications have appeared in Newsweek, the Jewish Daily Forward, Tablet Magazine, The National Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and others. For more information and list of publications, please visit https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/izabella-tabarovsky-0
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.