Michael Stephens and Christopher Phillips are editors of the new book, ‘What Next for Britain in the Middle East?’ (I.B Tauris, 2021). Michael Stephens is a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and an Associate Fellow at RUSI. Christopher Phillips is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, where is is also a Deputy Dean.
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.