Jonathan Freedland
 Jonathan Freedland       (journalist, editor, gatekeeper?) | |
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| Born | 25 February 1967 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Religion | Jew |
| Spouse | Sarah Peters |
| Interests | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for The Jewish Chronicle. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View. Freedland's family background is Jewish. [1]
Reporting
Seamus Milne, fellow Guardian editor, observed that "A senior editor of a national British publication who has written frequently for The Guardian's opinion section, told me that he was aware that all coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue was "tightly controlled" by Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian's executive editor for opinion."[2]
Middle East
Jonathan Freedland has been termed the paper's 'gatekeeper' on the Middle East conflict. According to Jonathan Cook, Freedland is "helping to confect an anti-semitism crisis in the Labour Party".[3]
"Democracy"
In May 2019 he argued that Politics may be broken. But it’s only politics that can save us.[4]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Labour’s witch-hunt against Ken Livingstone | article | 31 March 2017 | Jonathan Cook | Labour's kangaroo court trying to justify suspending Ken Livingstone for stating the fact that Hitler supported Zionism |
| Document:The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's "antisemitism" scandal breaks his silence | Interview | 3 May 2016 | Norman Finkelstein Jamie Stern-Weiner | Norman G. Finkelstein is clear: "It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No." |
| Document:The EHRC’s report into Labour antisemitism is the real ‘political interference’ | blog post | 7 November 2020 | Jonathan Cook | It is instructive to compare the certainty with which the EHRC treats Councillor Pam Bromley’s ambiguous remarks as irrefutable proof of antisemitism in Labour with its complete disregard for unmistakably antisemitic comments from Boris Johnson, the man actually running the country. That lack of concern is shared, of course, by the establishment media and Jewish leadership organisations. |
| Document:UK Labour Party is right to drop racist IHRA guidelines of anti-Semitism | Article | 6 August 2018 | The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Anti-Semitism definition guidelines the Labour Party are correctly omitting, are designed by Israeli propagandists to aid their many mass lobby attempts to stop international solidarity with the Palestinians and to deny Palestinians the right to express the nature of Israel’s 70 years of violence and racism towards them. |
