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Simon Sebag Montefiore & Dave Rich

03/09/2025
57 min
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In a recent Sky News interview, Simon Sebag Montefiore observed, “In historical terms, what we’re seeing is the end of the taboo on antisemitism,” 80 years after the end of World War Two. Now, the acclaimed historian and author of Jerusalem joins CST’s Dave Rich, whose Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into Our World and How You Can Change It has been fully updated to address the events of October 7 and their aftermath.

In conversation with Sunday Times journalist Hadley Freeman, they will confront the persistence of the world’s oldest hatred and its implications in 2025.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2025.

About the speakers

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore FRSL is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Jerusalem: The Biography was number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council. Image © Marcus Leoni, Folhapress
Hadley Freeman

Hadley Freeman is a columnist and writer for the Sunday Times, and was previously a staff writer for The Guardian, where she won several journalism awards. She is the author of several books, her most recent, being Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia. House of Glass, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Image © John Nguyen, The Jewish Chronicle
Dave Rich

Dr Dave Rich is author of Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world and how you can change it, and The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism. He is Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore & Dave Rich

03/09/2025
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57 min

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Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Simon Sebag Montefiore FRSL is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Jerusalem: The Biography was...

Hadley Freeman

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Hadley Freeman is a columnist and writer for the Sunday Times, and was previously a staff writer for The Guardian, where she won several...

Dave Rich

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Dr Dave Rich is author of Everyday Hate: How antisemitism is built into our world and how you can change it, and The Left’s...