Seth Frantzman is oped editor of The Jerusalem Post, and political writer with works appearing in the Jerusalem Post, The Forward, al-Jazeera as well as online magazines such as Algemeiner. Seth is also Research Associate at the Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs at IDC Herzliya, was a guest lecturer at The Hebrew University, Bar-Ilan University, and has lectured for five years at Al-Quds University in American studies as an assistant professor.
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.