Julia Ebner is a research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Prior, she spent two years working for the world’s first counter-extremism organisation Quilliam, where she led research projects on terrorism prevention for the European Commission and the Kofi Annan Foundation. Based on her research, Julia has given evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee and written for The Independent, the Guardian and the Telegraph. Her new book is called The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism (I.B. Tauris, 2017).
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.