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Gershon Shafir is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and the founding director of its Human Rights Programme. He has served as President of the Association for Israel Studies and is the author or editor of ten books, among them A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict (University of California Press, 2017).
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‘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-SalzbergerOur 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.
