Joshua Muravchik is a fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. His book, Trailblazers of the Arab Spring: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East, was published in 2013. Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel was published by Encounter Books in 2014.
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.