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Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book is Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State (Indiana 2019).
Michael Saenger is Professor of English at Southwestern University, teaching and writing on Shakespeare from a wide variety of perspectives. He is the Chair of the Section for Faculty in the Humanities at Academic Engagement Network and published Finding Common Ground: A Strategy for Combating the Anti-Israel Movement in the U.S. Academy in 2022.
Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures
Iran is slowly surrounding Israel with a ‘ring of fire’: On the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to see plain the IRGC’s transnational Jihad
From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn’t Learn? | An Interview with Mitchell Cohen
‘Hamas must be defeated, not only for Israelis’ sake, but for the chance of peace in our part of the Middle East’ | The Fathom Interview: Fania Oz-Salzberger
Is Hamas Winning? An Interview with Michael DoranOur 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.
