Salo Aizenberg is the author of Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards which was named a finalist in the Jewish National Book Awards in 2013, and Postcards from the Holy Land: A Pictorial History of the Ottoman Era, 1880-1918. He has written research reports on Israel/Palestine for NGO Monitor and HonestReporting and articles for Tablet Magazine and Algemeiner Journal.
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.