Channa Newman, PhD, is Chair of Humanities and Human Sciences at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a Holocaust survivor and is a citizen of Israel, United States, and Czech Republic.
Thomas Mullane, PhD, is an independent researcher with a background in university teaching and psychiatric social work.
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.