Husam Zomlot is co-founder of the Palestine Strategy Group, ambassador-at-large for the Palestinian government and adjunct professor and co-chair of the School of Government at Birzeit University. Husam Zomlot served as a PLO representative to the UK from 2003 to 2008. He is the author of Building a Palestinian State Under Occupation.
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.