Justin Feldman is a former research assistant at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED). His research contributions on international law, the Middle East, and Pan-Arabism can be found in Dr. Steven Zipperstein’s Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law: 1939-1948, the Journal for Political Inquiry, and Atlas Africa. He is the Senior Program Manager for the Israeli-American Council Mishelanu and a Master’s of International Relations student at New York University.
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.