Dr Toby Greene is a lecturer in the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan University. He was formerly a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Politics and International Relations and a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a former Director of Research for BICOM. Information about his publications and research are at www.tobygreene.net and he tweets @toby_greene_
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.