“The Jews: An Indigenous People:” AWB Author Chat with Ben Freeman

Join A Wider Bridge in conversation with acclaimed LGBTQ Jewish author and activist, Ben Freeman on his latest book. In The Jews: An Indigenous People, the final instalment of his seminal Jewish Pride trilogy, Ben takes readers on a powerful journey through 3,000 years of Jewish history. Exploring the origins of Jewish identity and practice and their resonance today, Ben arrives at an academically sound and quite simply logical conclusion: Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel.

Learn from Ben in this engaging session about what it means to be a proud LGBTQ in today’s world, grounded in our shared truth and history.

About Ben Freeman

Ben is founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, 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.

Focusing on Jewish identity and the 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’s leading Jewish thinkers. Ben was voted number 8 on the inaugural 25 Young ViZionaries list by The Jerusalem Post and JNF-USA. Additionally, he serves as a Jewish Diplomat for the World Jewish Congress and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy.