Jonathan Freedland "An enemy of the people", The Guardian (14 July 2000)
• On The Holocaust Industry. In November 2016 (in an article titled "Don't play the Nazi card"), Freedland expressed regret for the last sentence of his column from 2000 (quoted here).
• On The Holocaust Industry. In November 2016 (in an article titled "Don't play the Nazi card"), Freedland expressed regret for the last sentence of his column from 2000 (quoted here).
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Finkelstein sees the Jews as either villains or victims - and that, I fear, takes him closer to the people who created the Holocaust than to those who suffered in it.
— Jonathan Freedland on Norman Finkelstein
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• On The Holocaust Industry. In November 2016 (in an article titled "Don't play the Nazi card"), Freedland expressed regret for the last sentence of his column from 2000 (quoted here)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist, broadcaster and weekly columnist for The Guardian. He presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series The Long View. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and has written a play, Jews. In Their Own Words, performed in 2022 at the Royal Court Theatre, London
About Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist, broadcaster and weekly columnist for The Guardian. He presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series The Long View. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and has written a play, Jews. In Their Own Words, performed in 2022 at the Royal Court Theatre, London
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