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David Aaronovitch

An award-winning journalist who has worked in radio, television and newspapers since the early 1980s. David lives in Hampstead with his wife, three daughters and Kerry Blue the terrier. His first book, "Paddling to Jerusalem", won the Madoc prize for travel literature in 2001 and his second, "Voodoo Histories", was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.

Nathan Abrams

Nathan teaches film studies at Bangor University in north Wales where he lives. He researches, writes, and broadcasts regularly (in both Welsh and English) on transatlantic Jewish culture and history. He has written two books and loads of articles on Stanley Kubrick.

Simon Albert

Simon Albert is a lawyer based in London practising competition law. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, to 'second generation' expat British parents, he is a dual British / Czech national, having spent two years from 2017 restoring his late grandparents' former Czechoslovak citizenship.

Robert Alter

Robert Alter has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1967. He has written on the novel, modern Hebrew literature, and the Bible and has translated the entire Hebrew Bible.

Ian Austin

Ian Austin is the chair of Mainstream UK, a campaign against extremism in British politics. He was the MP for Dudley North between 2005 and 2019, representing Labour until his resignation in February 2019 over antisemitism and intolerance. He was appointed the Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Israel in 2019.