Jonathan Saul Freedland was born on 25 February 1967 and is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for The Guardian.
21 Facts About Jonathan Freedland
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The youngest of three children and the only son of a Jewish couple, biographer and journalist Michael Jonathan Freedland, and Israeli-born Sara Hocherman, he was educated at University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London.
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Jonathan Freedland began his Fleet Street career at the short-lived Sunday Correspondent.
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Jonathan Freedland was Washington Correspondent for The Guardian from 1993 until 1997, when he returned to London as an editorial writer and columnist.
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Between 2002 and 2004, Jonathan Freedland was an occasional columnist for the Daily Mirror and from 2005 to 2007 he wrote a weekly column for the London Evening Standard.
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Jonathan Freedland writes a monthly column for The Jewish Chronicle.
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Jonathan Freedland has been published in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Newsweek and The New Republic.
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Jonathan Freedland was named 'Columnist of the Year' in the 2002 What the Papers Say awards and in 2008 was awarded the David Watt Prize for Journalism, in recognition of his essay "Bush's Amazing Achievement", published in The New York Review of Books.
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Jonathan Freedland was executive editor of the opinion section of The Guardian from May 2014 till early 2016 and continues to write a Saturday column for it.
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In November 2019, Jonathan Freedland apologised for making a "very bad error" in falsely reporting that a shortlisted Labour prospective parliamentary candidate had been fined for making antisemitic remarks on Facebook.
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Jonathan Freedland attributed the mistaken identification by confusing two lawyers with the same name to a "previously reliable Labour source" whose information he had "passed on too hastily".
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Jonathan Freedland has published twelve books: three non-fiction works under his own name and nine novels, eight of them under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
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Jonathan Freedland is the author of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, a biography of Rudolf Vrba, who participated in the first escape by Jews from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Jonathan Freedland defends Israel's right to exist, but hopes that Israel will recognise the 'high price' paid by Palestinians.
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Jonathan Freedland has urged the left to treat Jews "the same way you'd treat any other minority".
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Jonathan Freedland has commented on the antisemitic expressions of Palestinians with whom Corbyn has associated and expressed the view that many of the Labour Party's new members were hostile to Jews.
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Jonathan Freedland is a supporter of projects that seek to preserve Jewish identity and heritage.
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Jonathan Freedland has frequently written about the importance of both his faith and his cultural heritage.
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Jonathan Freedland has been active in campaigns to save British Jewish heritage.
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Jonathan Freedland is married to Sarah Peters, a radio and podcast producer.
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Jonathan Freedland is a governor of Simon Marks Jewish Primary School in Stamford Hill.