Dr Martin Jander is an instructor at the Freie Universität Berlin. He specialises in West-German and East-German politics in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 2001, Dr Jander has worked as author and journalist in Berlin and teaches German and European history in the Berlin programs of New York University and Stanford University, and carried our research German left-wing terrorism in a project of the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.
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.