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Events
October 7 and the Left
Hadley Freeman in conversation with Tanya Gold
Thursday 02 May, 7pm (GMT) | Free Online Event
In her new book, Blindness: October 7 and the Left, author and columnist Hadley Freeman explores the willingness of many progressives to abandon values they purport to represent.
With bitter clarity she outlines the equivocations, contortions and hypocrisy displayed by elements of the left, including many who were unable to acknowledge or condemn the atrocities of Hamas. And she examines the beliefs that have swept across liberal sectors such as universities and the arts with a fervour that blinds adherents to the immense complexities of history and justice.
On Thursday 2nd May, 7pm (GMT) Hadley will discuss her new title with Tanya Gold. Blindness is published by Jewish Quarterly, which produces four long essays a year exploring Jewish culture and history.
In Partnership with Lockdown University and with the Jewish Quarterly
Hadley Freeman is a columnist and writer for the Sunday Times, and was previously a staff writer for The Guardian since 2000, where she won several journalism awards. She is the author of several books and her most recent is Good Girls: A Story & Study of Anorexia. She was born in New York and lives in London.
Image © John Nguyen, The Jewish Chronicle
Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist and restaurant critic for The Spectator. She won a British Press Award in 2010 and a Foreign Press Association Award in 2015.
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Elif Shafak
The year always begins for me with Jewish Book Week – here are old friends, faithful readers, new writers, a great melting pot of ideas, talk, collaboration and hope.
Howard Jacobson
I love Book Week because, whether on stage or in the audience, it makes me feel smart and challenged at the same time.
Tracy Chevalier
Book Week has become London’s non-party parliament, distinguished from the other one by people listening as well as talking. It’s the best.
David Hare
