To Kill the President

Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and presents the BBC Radio 4 contemporary history series The Long View. He was a noted public supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He previously wrote for The Jewish Chronicle, until his resignation in September 2024 along with Hadley Freeman, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel and others. 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.