James Snell is a writer on foreign policy and the Middle East. He has been published in The Telegraph, The Spectator, Prospect, National Review, and many more, reviewing books on a number of subjects for The National, The New Arab, Middle East Eye, The Arab Weekly, The Salisbury Review and more.
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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.