An Insider's Account of Columbia's Pro-Hamas Protests - with Shai Davidai

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Share on Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/3uucbtrr Since 10/07, no faculty member at Columbia University (or any university for that matter) has been more outspoken about the shocking and staggering rise in antisemitism than Shai Davidai. He brings his first-hand accounts to our conversation today. Shai is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2015. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, Shai spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research. Since Columbia students established the most recent pro-Hamas encampment on the Columbia campus days ago, Israeli-born and raised Shai Davidai has been barred from campus. Having just now arrived in Israel, Shai joins us in Tel Aviv today to describe what exactly has been happening since 10/07, the early signs of antisemitism he identified at Columbia well before 10/07, and the common misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the rhetoric and incitement being used by a number of Columbia student organizations and faculty. You can follow Shai on X here: @ShaiDavidai

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0:00.0	My very first real tweet social media activism was on October 12.
0:05.6	It was the day where I saw for the first time an actual pro-Hamass, pro-Islamic jihad protest at Columbia.
0:15.0	And I was shocked because I realized it was not politics, it was not ideology, it was hate.
0:22.0	And that night I came home after the kids went to sleep and I just
0:26.7	weeped like I think I've never whipped in my life and my wife asked me what what's happening and I said I saw the anti-Semitic beast
0:37.2	that Bialik wrote about. It is 5 o'clock.
0:45.0	It is 12 o'clock p.m. on Friday, April 26th here in Tel Aviv. It is 5 o'clock AM in New York City as New Yorkers
0:58.6	get ready to start their day. I'm here this afternoon with Shai Davyai who just arrived in Israel
1:06.9	from New York City. We're here together in Tel Aviv at the headquarters of
1:12.0	Startup Nation Central.
1:14.0	Shai, you just pointed out to me that this is, we are sitting around the corner from where you were at a startup.
1:22.0	Yeah. Some years ago before you made the trek to America to pursue
1:26.9	academia where you are right now which is your professor at Columbia University at
1:32.1	the business school.
1:33.0	But exactly, yeah.
1:33.8	Just 30 seconds on where you worked and what your life was before you.
1:37.5	I used to work in a place called TLV media that was doing, you know know optimization for advertising on the internet in
1:46.7	2008 2009 I used to have lunch right around the corner and literally I worked very till you know a month before I left for
1:56.3	graduate school in the United States. Okay so I just to set up this
2:00.3	conversation you are a professor at Columbia.
2:03.2	At Columbia. I'm an assistant professor of management at Columbia Business
2:06.1	School. Okay, and the reason your name and your voice will be recognizable to this
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