Ben Freeman

Ben M. Freeman is the founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement and the author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People (2021) and Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride (2022), and The Jews: An Indigenous People (2025). A Holocaust scholar with nearly twenty years of experience, Freeman gained international prominence during the Corbyn Labour antisemitism crisis and is recognised as a leading Jewish thinker and public intellectual. In 2023, he was voted number 8 on the inaugural 25 Young Visionaries list by the Jerusalem Post and JNF-USA, Ben also serves as a Jewish Diplomat for the World Jewish Congress and writes a column for The Jerusalem Post.

Introduction

Ben Freeman discusses his latest book The Jews: An Indigenous People. This is the  the third book in a series on Jewish Pride. Ben discusses the way in which the relationship of Jewish people to the land of Israel is being contested. In his book, he explores the origins of Jewish identity and practice and their resonance today. Freeman expertly weaves together anthropology and archaeology while examining globally recognised criteria for indigeneity.