Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink
By Aiden Pink
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Is Now Also Israel’s Ministers Of Defense, Health, Welfare And The Diaspora
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named himself as the country’s Minister of Welfare on Wednesday, a month after incumbent minister Haim Katz resigned amid expected criminal fraud charges. In addition to leading the country and now serving as Welfare Minister, Netanyahu is now also Israel’s Defense Minister, Health Minister and Minister of the Diaspora. It’s…
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Fast Forward Fired Prof: I’m Not Anti-Semitic, I Only ‘Faintly’ Imposed Swastika On Israeli Flag
A university lecturer in Australia who was fired amid allegations of anti-Semitism argued that he only “faintly” superimposed a swastika on the Israeli flag during a classroom PowerPoint, The Age reported. The University of Sydney fired political economy lecturer Tim Anderson in February after numerous warnings about his conduct and use of social media, including…
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News The Federation Rubber-Stamped His Donations. Then He Tried To Give To IfNotNow.
At the beginning of this year, like he did every year, Alan Sussman asked the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle to donate some of his family fund’s money to a charity of his choice. This time, though, things went awry. That’s because the group Sussman wanted to support was IfNotNow, the left-wing Jewish group that…
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Fast Forward New York GOP Chapter Defends Anti-Semitic Campaign Ad Despite Deleting Video
Updated 11:45 a.m. The Republican Party chapter in a New York county with a growing Jewish population posted a campaign video on Wednesday that was widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Rockland County, about an hour north of New York City, has been the site of tensions for years between longtime locals and the quickly-growing Orthodox Jewish…
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Fast Forward ‘I Will Destroy You As A Race’: Milwaukee Synagogue Receives Threatening Call
A synagogue in suburban Milwaukee called police after receiving a threatening voicemail pledging to “destroy” them, local TV station WISN reported Tuesday. The call to The Shul Bayside, which came from a local area code, arrived at 2:30 in the morning on August 19. Some of the threats on the call reportedly included “You think…
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Fast Forward Voters Oppose Trump’s ‘Disloyalty’ Comments – Unless They’re Republicans: Poll
Most Americans disapprove of President Trump’s claim that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats are unintelligent or “disloyal” — but most Republicans support those remarks, according to a poll released Wednesday. President Trump attracted much criticism from the Jewish community when he said on August 20 that Jewish Democrats have “either a total lack of…
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Fast Forward YouTube Shuts Down Several White Nationalist Channels
Updated 1:20 p.m. YouTube has closed the accounts of several white nationalist channels, Right Wing Watch reported Tuesday. Among the most prominent white nationalists to be de-platformed by YouTube was James Allsup, the former president of a College Republicans chapter in Washington state who went on to march in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally…
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Fast Forward Advertisers Keep Dropping Tucker Carlson’s Show Over White Supremacy Remarks
A growing number of companies have declared this month that they will no longer pay for ads on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Channel show in the wake of his latest controversial comments about white nationalism. The computer technology company Dell confirmed on Monday to Sleeping Giants, a liberal advocacy group pushing for a boycott of…
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