Azriel Bermant is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His book, ‘Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East’ was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2016. For more works please visit Azriel’s website: http://www.azrielbermant.com/
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.