UKLFI Charitable Trust invites you to a webinar on “The 1929 Hebron Massacre: The Story the World Refuses to Confront” with Yardena Schwartz and Natasha Hausdorff on Wednesday 16 September 2026 at 5pm UK time (7pm Israel, 6pm Europe, 12.00 ET).
In 1929 Jews and Arabs lived peacefully in Hebron next to the tomb of their shared patriarch, until one Saturday morning nearly 70 Jewish men, women and children were murdered by their Arab neighbours. The echoes in the atrocities of Saturday, 7 October 2023 highlight how little has changed.
Yardena Schwartz has recently written a book about the Hebron massacre, the propaganda and incitement that preceded it, and their links to the ideological and informational warfare of today. In this webinar she will discuss with Natasha Hausdorff the lessons that must be learned to forestall further tragic repetitions.
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MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated producer, and bestselling author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict, which is now in development as a feature film. Her reporting from four continents has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, Time, National Geographic, and Foreign Policy.
Based in Israel from 2013-2023, Yardena previously worked at NBC News and MSNBC. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and the Religion News Association award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016.
Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister at 6 Pump Court Chambers and a frequent speaker on International Law. She has a law degree from Oxford University, qualified as a solicitor at Skadden, and subsequently gained an LLM from Tel Aviv University, focussing on public international law and the law of armed conflict. She clerked for Miriam Naor, President of Israel’s Supreme Court, and was a fellow at Columbia Law School’s National Security programme. Natasha is legal director of UKLFI Charitable Trust.
Natasha’s work explaining legal issues relating to Israel has been recognised by the American Jewish Committee’s award for moral courage and by the honour of lighting one of the torches on Har Herzl to mark Israel’s Independence Day.