{"id":1259,"date":"2025-09-29T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:59:36","slug":"ben-m-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Ben M Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1259\" class=\"elementor elementor-1259\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-727a00cf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"727a00cf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1138cdca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1138cdca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1260 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 2px 10px 2px 2px; border: 1px solid #000000; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-M-Freeman-photo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ben M Freeman\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-M-Freeman-photo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-M-Freeman-photo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-M-Freeman-photo-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-M-Freeman-photo-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-M-Freeman-photo-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p><p>Ben M. Freeman, founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, is a leader, public intellectual, and educator. He is the author of the seminal Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People (2021) and its follow up, Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride (2022). The finale of his Jewish Pride trilogy, The Jews: An Indigenous People, was published in February 2025.<\/p><p>Focusing on Jewish identity and historical and contemporary Jew-hatred, Ben M. Freeman works to educate, inspire, and empower. As a Holocaust scholar for over fifteen years, he gained prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis in the UK, quickly establishing himself as one of his generation&#8217;s leading Jewish thinkers. Ben was voted number 8 on the inaugural 25 Young ViZionaries list by The Jerusalem Post and JNF-USA. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa and a Fellow at the Comper Center for Study of Antisemitism.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben M. Freeman, founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, is a leader, public intellectual, and educator. He is the author of the seminal Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People (2021) and its follow up, Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride (2022). The finale of his Jewish Pride trilogy, The Jews: An Indigenous People, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-fellows","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compercenter.haifa.ac.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}