Ben Faulding
By Ben Faulding
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Opinion Will Synagogue Bloodbath Be Wakeup Call For Jews Who Enable Trump’s Hate?
On Saturday morning, a white nationalist walked in to the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, and killed 11 people as of the last count. His declared reason for this carnage was a hatred of HIAS, a Jewish organization that advocates for refugees, founded in 1881. The organization does have a chapter in…
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Opinion Healthcare Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time
Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned election-night reaction rooms around the country by winning the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old DSA member with a degree in economics from Boston University. She helped organize for Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. After the coming election…
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Opinion How Internet Culture Gave Us A Video Of A Hasidic Boy Being Taunted
On Sunday, a video went viral of an man approaching a hasidic boy somewhere between three and five years of age. The boy had the traditional long, curly sidelocks known as payoth, and the top of his head shaved in hasidic fashion. The man presumably filming the video is heard talking to the expressionless boy….
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Opinion What ADL Should Learn From The Starbucks Debacle
Last month, two black men waiting in a Starbucks in Philadelphia were arrested for the new crime of Waiting While Black. Shortly thereafter, Starbucks announced that it would undertake anti-bias training to ensure this did not happen again — which was good. The plan is to close all 8,000+ of their locations on May 29th…
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Opinion Why We Should Applaud The Politician Who Said Jews Control The Weather
This past Sunday morning, D.C. Councilman Trayon White released a video complaining about the weather. It was a completely normal post which would have gone unnoticed but for a little comment he made at the end: “Y’all better pay attention to this climate control,” White said. “It’s climate manipulation and D.C. keep talking about ‘We…
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Opinion We Need To Talk About Black Anti-Semitism
A recent controversy involving anti-Semitic firebrand Louis Farrakhan and leaders of the Women’s March has revealed a perplexing division. Last week, Women’s March organizer Tamika Mallory came under fire for attending an event led by Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan and later posing for a photo with him. In true fashion, Farrakhan made several anti-Semitic…
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