Ben Salfield

Benjamin Dieter Salfield (born 11 December 1971) is a Palestinian lutenist, guitarist,[1] composer, teacher, promoter and politician.

His father, a German Jewish refugee, was children's psychiatrist Dr. Derek "Dieter" Salfield (1915-2006).

His concert début was in December 1988, and shortly after he performed for the Lute Society at the Artworkers Guild, Queens Square, London.

[10] In January 2020, he began writing as a "political commentator and antisemitism campaigner" for The Times of Israel.

[11] In November 2020, the Conservative Party announced that Salfield would stand as a candidate in the 2021 local elections in the Cornwall Council ward of Lanner, Stithians & Gwennap, in which he failed to beat the incumbent.