Kira Lewis joined BICOM as a Communications Associate in August 2022. Prior to that, Kira worked in national Comms and Digital at the Labour Party, and before that, as the national organiser at Labour First, the moderate faction of the party, working to win back control from the hard left. Kira holds a BA in War Studies at King’s College London and is also Councillor in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
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.