Lyn Julius is a journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the UK. Lyn Julius’s book Uprooted: how 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight, was published by Vallentine Mitchell in 2018.
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.