Adam Lebor is a British author and journalist. In 199 he became a foreign news correspondent and covered the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. His publications have appeared in the Economist, Financial Times and Literary Review. He has written eight non-fiction books and five novels, which have been published in fourteen languages. His work includes Hitler’s Secret Bankers, which exposed Swiss economic complicity with Nazi Germany and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
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.