Professor Michael Yudkin is Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford University. In 2005 Michael was appointed assistant to the Vice-President of Kellogg in 2005 and was responsible for the establishment of the Kellogg College Writing Centre and the Kellogg College Research Centres. He retired at the end of September 2011.
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.