Henry Rome is the deputy head of research and a director covering global macro politics and the Middle East. Henry develops and directs Eurasia Group’s global research agenda and leads platform-wide research initiatives. He has expertise in Middle East geopolitics, international security, and economic sanctions, with a focus on Iran and Israel. Henry is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has written on US-Iran relations and nuclear diplomacy in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post.
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.