In this firsthand exposé, a former Columbia Business School professor mounts a blistering indictment of how radical politics, ideological indoctrination, and institutional indifference have transformed campuses into incubators of anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American hatred.
In the wake of the October 7th Hamas massacre, Shai Davidai became an accidental activist. Almost overnight, he was organizing rallies, appearing on prime-time television, testifying before Congress, facing death threats, and found himself barred from teaching his award-winning course.
Beginning with the small vigil at Columbia that sparked his activism, Davidai chronicles how ideological extremism took root in elite institutions and how silence and fear fueled the most significant surge of antisemitism in North America since the Holocaust.
Shai Davidai has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University and has taught at Princeton, The New School for Social Research, and Columbia. His activism has drawn over 250,000 followers on social media, and his podcast, Here I Am with Shai Davidai, reaches tens of thousands of listeners 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. 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.