Ben M. Freeman, founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, is a leader, public intellectual, and educator. He is the author of the seminal Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and its follow up, Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. His latest book, The Jews: An Indigenous People, was published in February 2025. It is the first scholarly work ever to directly address and definitively prove that Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel.

Focusing on Jewish identity and the historical and contemporary challenges ofJew-hatred, Ben M. Freeman’s initiatives 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, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy.