Jonathan Paris is a London-based security and political analyst and also a Senior Advisor with the Washington-based Chertoff Group and associate fellow of the London-based Global Diplomatic Forum. Paris was a Middle East Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 1995-2000. Since moving to London in mid-2001, he has prepared dozens of reports and studies, mostly future-oriented, for the US government.
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.