John Lyndon is the European Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace, the largest and fastest-growing network of peacebuilding organisations in the region. A Visiting Fellow at Kings College London and a regular Middle East analyst on France 24 and Sky News, his writing has appeared in TIME, Newsweek and the Independent.
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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.