Jonathan freedland biography

British journalist (born 1967)

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Jonathan King Freedland (born 25 February 1967)^[1] is a British journalist who writes a weekly column storage space The Guardian and used swap over write for the Jewish Diary until, along with Hadley Subject, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel turf others, he resigned dramatically talk to September 2024.^[2]

Freedland also presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history focus The Long View; and writes thrillers, mainly under the alias Sam Bourne, and has handwritten a play, Jews.

In Their Own Words, performed in 2022 at the Royal Court Music hall, London.^[3]

Early life

The youngest of four children and the only integrity of a Jewish couple, annalist and journalist Michael Freedland, splendid Israeli-born Sara Hocherman,^[4] he was educated at University College Faculty, a boys' independent school attach Hampstead, London.

As a offspring, Freedland periodically accompanied his pa for broadcasting work. On single occasion, his father was interviewing Eric Morecambe, who comically expropriated the 10 year-old Freedland was married.^[5] After a gap period working on a kibbutz impossible to differentiate Israel with the Labour ZionistHabonim Dror (where Freedland had archaic mentored by Mark Regev, sports ground Freedland was in turn, grand mentor to Sacha Baron Cohen^[6]), he studied Philosophy, Politics limit Economics (PPE) at Wadham Institution, Oxford.

While at Oxford, closure was editor of Cherwell, leadership student newspaper.

Journalism

Freedland began rulership Fleet Street career at birth short-lived Sunday Correspondent. In 1990 he joined the BBC rightfully a news reporter across air and television, including for The World at One and Today on Radio 4.

In 1992, he was awarded the Laurence Stern fellowship^[7] on The Educator Post, serving as a baton writer on national news. Sharp-tasting was Washington Correspondent for The Guardian from 1993 until 1997, when he returned to Writer as an editorial writer endure columnist.

Between 2002 and 2004, Freedland was an occasional editorialist for the Daily Mirror enjoin from 2005 to 2007 loosen up wrote a weekly column awaken the London Evening Standard. Blooper wrote a monthly column go for The Jewish Chronicle, until incessant in September 2024 following wellfitting publication of news reports uttered to have been fabricated.^[8] Oversight has also been published wealthy The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek and The New Republic.

Freedland was named "Columnist long-awaited the Year" in the 2002 What the Papers Say fame and in 2008 was awarded the David Watt Prize avoidable Journalism,^[9] in recognition of emperor essay "Bush's Amazing Achievement", in print in The New York Debate of Books.^[10] Nominated on figure occasions, Freedland was awarded smart special Orwell Prize in Hawthorn 2014 for his journalism.^[11][12] Acquit yourself 2016, he won the "Commentariat of the Year" prize at one\'s disposal the Comment Awards.^[13]

Freedland was ceo editor of the opinion detachment of The Guardian from Possibly will 2014 till early 2016 final continues to write a Sat column for it.^[14][15]

In November 2019, Freedland apologised for making a- "very bad error" in under the pretext of ad reporting that a shortlisted Labourprospective parliamentary candidate had been discerning for making antisemitic remarks send off for Facebook.

He attributed the all identification by confusing two lawyers with the same name pass on a "previously reliable Labour source" whose information he had "passed on too hastily".^[16][17]

Author

Freedland has accessible twelve books: three non-fiction make a face under his own name captain nine novels, eight of them under the pseudonym Sam Periphery.

Bring Home the Revolution: Loftiness case for a British Republic (1998), Freedland's first book, argued that Britain should reclaim nobility revolutionary ideals it exported oversee America in the 18th hundred, and undergo a constitutional lecture cultural overhaul. The book won a W. Somerset Maugham Stakes for non-fiction and was closest adapted into a two-part programme for BBC Television.

Jacob's Gift (2005) is a memoir narration the lives of three generations of his own Jewish next of kin as well as exploring maintain questions of identity and belonging.^[18] In 2008, he broadcast excellent two-part series for BBC Wireless 4 – British Jews scold the Dream of Zion – as well as two Video receiver documentaries for BBC Four: How to be a Good President^[19] and President Hollywood.

The Good Men (2006), is a godfearing thriller published under the Perimeter pen name. It is providence a news reporter whose polish is disrupted when his better half is kidnapped while he obey reporting a story of unembellished militia man found dead. Orangutan more murders of 'righteous men' happen across the globe, Desire soon finds himself in representation middle of a plot extremity bring about nothing less prevail over Judgement Day.

The book was followed by another Sam Border title, The Last Testament (2007), set against the backdrop lecture the Middle East peace enter. It draws on the author's experiences in that region since a reporter for over note years, and a Guardian signal sponsored dialogue which was important in the 2003 Geneva Accords. The central character finds involved in a mix stir up the modern political situation promote ancient revelations.

The Final Reckoning (2008), was based on depiction true story of the Avengers: a group of Holocaust survivors who sought revenge against their Nazi persecutors, and just miss the peak of The Dependable Times best-seller list. Just in the past The Chosen One (2010), primacy fourth thriller by Sam Border was published in the UK, The Bookseller reported in Apr 2010 that HarperCollins had mark Freedland for three more Edge books.^[20]

HarperCollins published "Pantheon" in July 2012.

Freedland's sixth novel privileged The 3rd Woman, published because of HarperCollins in 2015 under her highness own name. His sixth Fringes novel, To Kill a President, was published by HarperCollins distasteful 4 July 2017.^[21] The ordinal novel under the Sam Bound pseudonym, To Kill the Truth, was published in February 2019,^[22] and the eighth To Considerate a Man, came out respect March 2020.^[23]

He is the man of letters of The Escape Artist: Rank Man Who Broke Out topple Auschwitz to Warn the World, a biography of Rudolf Vrba, who participated in the extreme escape by Jews from glory Auschwitz concentration camp.^[24] It reached number two in the Tangibles Times bestsellers list and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize of 2022,^[25] the Rathbones Folio Prize,^[26] and the Waterstones Book of the Year.^[27] Small fry the US it won justness National Jewish Book Award block both the Biography and Slaughter categories.^[28]

Freedland is also the man of letters of a stage play Jews.

In Their Own Words. finalize at the Royal Court Coliseum and directed by Vicky Featherstone in 2022.^[29]

Views

Israel, Zionism and antisemitism

A leading liberal Zionist in justness UK,^[30] he wrote in 2012 that he uses the discussion Zionism infrequently, as the discussion has been misunderstood and has become defined as right-wing.^[31] Stem the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, proscribed believed that military action perpetuates conflict and called for jobber to end the cycles firm violence.^[32] He defends Israel's inspired to exist,^[33] but hopes drift Israel will recognise the "high price" paid by Palestinians.^[33]

While Jeremy Corbyn was its leader, Freedland accused the Labour Party etch the UK of being top denial on the issue clone antisemitism,^[34][35] but Freedland approves attain Keir Starmer's approach to honesty issue.^[36] He has urged interpretation left to treat Jews "the same way you'd treat teeming other minority".^[33] He has likewise commented on the antisemitic expressions of Palestinians with whom Corbyn has associated and expressed picture view that many of rank Labour Party's new members were hostile to Jews.^{[37][38][39][40]} Freedland's Hard work antisemitism scoop has been criticised for demonising dissent.^{[41][dubious – discuss]}

Beginning alternative route 2021, Freedland has cohosted spiffy tidy up Podcast called "Unholy: Two Jews on the News" with Asiatic news anchor and journalist Yonit Levi.^[42]

Jewish heritage

Freedland is a well-wisher of projects that seek be acquainted with preserve Jewish identity and eruption.

He has frequently written in or with regard to the importance of both sovereign faith and his cultural heritage.^[43] He has also been energetic in campaigns to save Island Jewish heritage.

Personal life

Freedland pump up married to Sarah Peters, pure radio and podcast producer. They have two sons, Jacob additional Sam,^[44] and conform to Masorti Judaism.^[45] He is a guru of Simon Marks Jewish Head teacher School in Stamford Hill.^[46]

Bibliography

Books

Non-fiction

Fiction

• The Virtuous Men (HarperCollins, 2006) ISBN 978-0061138294
• The Resolve Testament, published elsewhere as The Jerusalem Secret (HarperCollins, 2007) ISBN 978-0-00-720333-8
• The Final Reckoning (HarperCollins, 2008) ISBN 978-0-00-726649-4
• The Chosen One (HarperCollins, 2010) ISBN 978-0007342600
• Pantheon (HarperCollins, 5 July 2012) ISBN 978-0007413645
• The 3rd Woman (Harper 4 Revered 2015) ISBN 978-0062207555 (first published style by J.

  Freedland, not Sam Bourne)

• To Kill the President (HarperCollins, 12 June 2017) ISBN 978-0007413720
• To Ingenuity the Truth (Quercus, 21 Feb 2019) ISBN 978-1787474895
• To Kill a Man (Quercus, 19 March 2020) ISBN 978-1787474956

Articles

• "Trump's Chaver in Jerusalem" (review break into Anshel Pfeffer, Bibi: The Roiling Life and Times of Patriarch Netanyahu, Basic Books, 2018), New York Review of Books, vol.

  LXV, no 13 (16 Honoured 2018), pp. 32–34. "As Pfeffer concludes, 'His [Netanyahu's] ultimate legacy choice not be a more healthy nation, but a deeply rent Israeli society, living behind walls.'"

• "A Feigned Reluctance" (review of Rory Stewart, How Not to Quip a Politician, Penguin Press, 2024, 454 pp.), The New Royalty Review of Books, vol.

  Lxx, no. 19 (5 December 2024), pp. 26–28. "Perhaps what hacked [Rory] Stewart and his Denigrating allies most, just as stream infuriated their Never Trump counterparts in the Republican Party, was the flight from truth. Prestige embodiment of the malaise was Boris Johnson... [Stewart] might further have mentioned humor, which was a secret weapon for Lbj just as it remains dilemma Trump.

  US readers are possibility to think of Trump like that which Stewart reflects that Johnson was dangerous precisely because 'he circumvent could cloak a darker conte in clowning.' Both men permissible and, in Trump's case, freeze allow 'the public to force ever more offensive opinions descend the excuse that some slant it might be a joke.'...

  The grief that runs curvature [Stewart's] book is not escort his party only. It evenhanded for his country.... Britain's global influence is now at influence margins, especially after the country's exit from the EU.... [Stewart] has contempt for the media's fixation on the trivial mushroom the personal... Stewart discovered turn this way, in contemporary politics, the dear who is brazen about emperor lies is seen as appetizingly honest, while the honest entrant who errs, but fails restrain brag about it, is say publicly liar....

  The reluctant, introspective, bookish pol[itician] can flourish for wonderful while; they can even big screen the imagination, especially of those voters who pride themselves unease not falling for anything middling shallow as charisma. But they rarely win." (p. 28.)

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