[11] After taking her A-level examinations while boarding at the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies,[3] she read English literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, and edited the student newspaper Cherwell.
[20] It is an account of the lives of her grandmother Sala Glass and her three brothers Alex, Jacques, and Henri in Poland, France, and the United States during the course of the twentieth century.
[21][22] Karen Heller wrote in The Washington Post of Freeman being "an exacting historian" who "tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success".
[27] In June 2018, Freeman denounced the treatment of undocumented child immigrants arriving in America, drawing parallels with her grandmother's experience of escaping from the Holocaust.
[34] In December 2022, after 22 years of working for The Guardian Freeman left the newspaper after she said she was denied her request to follow up on The Daily Telegraph's investigation into the charity Mermaids, which supports transgender youth in the UK.
[35] In an essay in the Jewish Quarterly from May 2024, she argues that the progressive Left had "hijacked" the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and had been misrepresenting those atrocities.