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Jonathan Sacerdoti
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist and campaigner
AwardsHerzl Award

Jonathan Sacerdoti is a British broadcaster, journalist and TV producer based in the United Kingdom. He covers stories relating to the UK and Europe, as well as terrorism and extremism stories, race relations,[1] Middle East analysis[2] and the British royal family.[3] He is also a campaigner against antisemitism.

Early life and education

Sacerdoti was born in London. His father Cesare was a Holocaust survivor, the son of an Italian Rabbi.[4]

He is a graduate of Oxford University[5] having studied English Language and Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

Career

Broadcast

As a reporter or expert analyst Sacerdoti has appeared on international TV channels including

i24news[6] and in 2020 appeared as a regular UK correspondent on the financial news network Cheddar News.[7][8][9] In 2022 he started to cover the British royal family on Fox News [10] and also recorded the Fox documentary "Who is King Charles III?"[11] In the US he is a regular guest commentator on E! Channel’s Daily Pop as a UK expert.[12] He has also appeared regularly as a co-host and guest on the American publication Us Weekly’s podcasts.[13]

His work as a voice artist includes narrating an English language audiobook of the Quran in 2019.[14]

Journalism and writing

He writes regularly for various publications including the Daily Express and The Spectator. He had his first byline in a national newspaper when he was 17 years old, writing for The Daily Telegraph.[15][16] He is a Special Correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle newspaper,[17] covering investigations[18] features[19] and major news stories.[20]

In 2020, Sacerdoti was part of a consortium of business and media figures [21][22] which acquired the London-based Jewish Chronicle newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1841 and is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.[23] It had announced its intention to seek a creditor’s voluntary liquidation, with 54 journalists and support staff told they would be made redundant, an outcome which was avoided through the consortium’s acquisition of the newspaper.[24]

TV Production

Sacerdoti worked as a television producer on the

Shine TV until 2007.[28] He also set up his own communications and design practice, Sacerdoti Creative Consultancy.[29]

Voluntary work and campaigning

He was a founding trustee of the charity Campaign Against Antisemitism and its Director of Communications until August 2016.[30][31][32][33]

Sacerdoti is a trustee of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's United Kingdom branch.[34]

He is on the council of The Montefiore Endowment, a charity which administers the endowment of the 19th-century British philanthropist

Sir Moses Montefiore.[35] He also represented the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation on the Board of Deputies of British Jews and has been a member of its International Division.[36]

Antiracism

As a journalist and a campaigner Sacerdoti has made many high profile public statements about antisemitism and other racisms, as well as about the Holocaust.

the Shoah.[41][42][43] He argues that true anti-racism requires individuals to act fairly to protect each other, using the example of the Catholic priests and nuns who saved his father’s life: "When faced with the question of what our duty is as citizens of the world, each of us can choose to make a difference, just as they did."[44]

He is critical of the use of the acronyms

BIPOC because they exclude Jewish, Gypsy, Roma and Travellers of Irish Heritage groups, and because they create "linguistic opacity."[45]

He was also critical of Whoopi Goldberg’s comments on The View when she said that the Holocaust was not about race, calling her comments "absolute nonsense" and "outrageous".[46] He questioned Goldberg’s claims of being Jewish and argued against her use of a Jewish stage name, as well as her writing racist anti-black jokes for a white comedian to deliver in blackface.[47] Sacerdoti also criticised Children’s author Roald Dahl’s anti-Jewish racism, suggesting that his "antisemitic attitudes were, and probably remain, widespread among some parts of British society."[48]

He has also written extensively about antisemitism in Arabic language TV broadcasts[49][50][51] as well as about positive interactions between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.[52][53]

Lectures

Sacerdoti has spoken both as a keynote speaker and as a panellist at international conferences organised by Harvard University, National Chengchi University in Taiwan, the American University in Dubai and Keio University in Tokyo.[54][55] He has given lectures on the nature of terrorism in Europe.[56] He has debated at the Oxford and Cambridge Union.[57]

BBC News

He has appeared regularly on

BBC World’s Dateline London.[61][62][63][64][65]

Awards

In 2001 Sacerdoti was awarded the Oxford University OxTALENT prize for IT and literature.[28]

In 2010 he was awarded the World Zionist Organization's "Herzl Award".[36]

References

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  2. ^ Jonathan Sacerdoti (23 January 2015), "Jonathan Sacerdoti on Sky News: the death of Saudi King Abdullah and implications for the future", Sky News, retrieved 6 April 2018 – via YouTube
  3. ^ Kaonga, Gerrard (5 July 2021). "King Charles will struggle to replace the Queen as monarch: 'Hard act to follow!'". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Holocaust's 'righteous' need to be remembered, too, survivor's son says". Crux. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Ones to Watch: 40 Under 40". Jewish News. Times of Israel. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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  13. ^ Prince Harry Ex Attends Family Event & Prince Charles On Queen Elizabeth II Health | Royally Us, retrieved 5 January 2022
  14. ^ Sacerdoti, Jonathan (8 February 2023). "How I came to narrate an audiobook of the Quran for an 'extremist' Imam". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  15. ^ Sacerdoti, Jonathan (26 May 1997). "When the going gets tough, Sir Ron gets going". The Daily Telegraph.
  16. ^ IMDB, "Jonathan Sacerdoti Biography", IMDb
  17. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/jakewsimons/status/1471509016752783371. Retrieved 5 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ "Exposed: 'Sleeper cell' of evangelical Christians posing as Orthodox rabbis". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  19. ^ "The Jewish Omar Sharif". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  20. ^ "Education Minister: I want every pupil to see Auschwitz". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
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  26. ^ IMDB, "The Wright Stuff Full Cast & Crew", IMDB
  27. ^ IMDB, "Deal or No Deal, Full Cast & Crew", IMDB
  28. ^ a b "Jonathan Sacerdoti - Creative Consultant and TV development Producer". www.yatedo.com. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  29. ^ "Sacerdoti Creative Consultancy". www.sacerdoti.com. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  30. ^ Jewish News Syndicate "UK’s Jeremy Corbyn says ‘Zionists’ don’t understand British culture", 23 August 2018.
  31. ^ Ynet News "Corbyn in 2013: ‘British Zionists don’t get British irony’", Ynet, Israel, 24 August 2018.
  32. ^ "Welcome Stephen and Binyomin, farewell Jonathan and Angela". Campaign Against Antisemitism. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  33. ^ Puente, Maria (22 March 2021). "Harry & Meghan crisis finds monarchy at reckoning". USA TODAY. p. Life 5b.
  34. ^ "Charity Details". beta.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  35. ^ "The Montefiore Endowment – Montefiore Endowment". www.montefioreendowment.org.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  36. ^ a b "MJC Calendar". www.liverpooljewish.com. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  37. ^ "Jonathan Sacerdoti". UK Jewish Film. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  38. ^ Sacerdoti, Jonathan (7 December 2020). "Should we judge Roald Dahl's work by his anti-Semitism? | The Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  39. ^ Sacerdoti, Jonathan (27 February 2021). "The trouble with 'BAME' | The Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  40. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1488442354155540480. Retrieved 8 February 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  42. ^ "Holocaust's 'righteous' need to be remembered, too, survivor's son says". cruxnow.com. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  43. ^ "Holocaust's 'righteous' need to be remembered, too, survivor's son says | The Long Island Catholic". licatholic.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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  45. ^ "The trouble with 'BAME' | The Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  46. ^ "Login • Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  47. ^ "Will the real Whoopi Goldberg please stand up?". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  48. ^ Sacerdoti, Jonathan (7 December 2020). "Should we judge Roald Dahl's work by his anti-Semitism? | The Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  49. ^ "BBC journalist praised the 'exquisite journalism' of Holocaust revisionist". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  50. ^ "Systematic BBC Arabic bias revealed". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  51. ^ "BBC Arabic anchor defends David Miller". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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  55. ^ "Jonathan Sacerdoti". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  56. ^ "Funzing Talks | Terrorism in Europe". uk.funzing.com. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  57. ^ The Cambridge Union (29 April 2013), This House Believes it is Western Hypocrisy to Condemn Iran's Nuclear Aspirations, retrieved 6 April 2018
  58. ^ Jonathan Sacerdoti on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, discussing Saturday night TV, retrieved 30 March 2021
  59. ^ "The Moral Maze: boycotts". Harry's Place. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  60. ^ ethanrmorgan (23 February 2016). "On the Proposal to Ban Boycotting by Public Bodies". University of York's English Pen Society. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  61. ^ Sela, Hadar (15 February 2021). "BBC clarifies inaccurate 'Dateline London' claim about Oslo Accords and Palestinian healthcare". CAMERA UK. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  62. ^ Jonathan Sacerdoti on BBC Dateline London, 2nd August 2014, retrieved 30 March 2021
  63. ^ Salisbury, Josh. "BBC backtracks over claim Israel is responsible for vaccinating Palestinians". jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  64. ^ BBC Dateline London, with Jonathan Sacerdoti, Stephanie Baker, Janet Daley and Mustapha Karkouti, retrieved 30 March 2021
  65. ^ Dateline London 1 February 2020, the Trump peace plan and Brexit Day, retrieved 30 March 2021
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