Shai Davidai, since October 7, 2023, has emerged as a prominent voice against antisemitism in North American. As the most outspoken professor on these issues, he has taken on this fight at great personal and professional risk. His activism has drawn over 250,000 followers on social media, and his podcast, Here I Am with Shai Davidai, reaches tens of thousands each week. He is also the creator and host of Pragmatic Judaism, a podcast exploring Judaism as a blueprint for Jewish continuity, peoplehood, and survival. Davidai has testified before the US House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, organized rallies and traveled across the world to speak with Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. He was named one of The Jerusalem Post’s 50 Most Influential Jews of 2024, honored by the Israeli Parliament and awarded The Jerusalem Prize at the Jerusalem Conference in New York City. His work has been featured in major outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Fox News and he has appeared in multiple documentaries. His forthcoming book, American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities, will be published in October 2026.

Davidai holds a PhD in Social Psychology from Cornell University and has taught at Princeton, The New School for Social Research, and Columbia.‍

Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism, the author of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide and a sought-after speaker and lecturer. She is a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC; senior fellow with the Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities in Palo Alto; and a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Elizabeth and Toby Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. A contributing writer at Tablet, she has also published in Newsweek, Sapir, Quillette, The National Interest, Fathom, The Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Tabarovsky grew up in Novosibirsk, Siberia, and immigrated to the United States from the USSR with her family in 1990. Her great-grandfather was imprisoned in Siberia by Stalin. She now lives in Israel.

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