Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Freedland      (journalist, editor, gatekeeper?)
Jonathan Freedland "helping to confect an anti-semitism crisis in the Labour Party"
Born	25 February 1967
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Religion	Jew
Spouse	Sarah Peters
Interests	• Israeli–Palestinian conflict • anti-semitism

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.

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."

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".

"Democracy"

In May 2019 he argued that Politics may be broken. But it’s only politics that can save us.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Guardian’s Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history	Article	22 August 2024	Tony Greenstein	A leading protagonist in the false anti-Semitism campaign in the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019, Jonathan Freedland's choice of a non-Zionist Jewish Holocaust hero as the subject of a book is therefore curious to say the least. It appears that Freedland’s motive was in order to both justify Rudolf Vrba’s silencing by Zionism’s Holocaust historians and obscure his message that Zionism was a quisling Jewish movement during the Holocaust.
Document:Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israel	blog post	25 August 2024	Jonathan Cook	The anti-Zionist Rudolf Vrba's story exposes the ideological foundations of Israel to be fully in sympathy with ugly European ethic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism. Vrba's story explains how Israel was always capable of, and is now committing, a genocide in Gaza.
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.

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