Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert and a strategic consultant with over twenty years of experience, specializing in liberal and progressive social causes. She has worked on eight national campaigns in Israel and conducted research and advising in over 15 other countries. Dahlia holds a PhD in political science and is currently a policy fellow at The Century Foundation; she co-hosts The Tel Aviv Review podcast and writes a regular column at Haaretz newspaper (English); she is also a regular commentator on global affairs for the BBC television program Context. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian/Observer, Dissent, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The Washington Quarterly, among other venues.
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.