Sam Shube is the Executive Director of the Hagar Association which operates the only Arab-Jewish, bilingual school in southern Israel, the country’s first integrated, Arab Jewish scout troop, and the Thaqafat Center for Shared Culture in the Negev. He is a member of Kibbutz Nir Am.
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.