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Professor Israel Bartal is Dean of Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Avraham Harman Chair in Jewish History.
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An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the LeftOur 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.
