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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News ADL’s Top Security Expert Says We Need A ‘Wholesale Rethink’ On How To Stop White Nationalism
George Selim knows more about fighting domestic terrorism than almost anyone – and four days after a white nationalist gunman killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart, he said the United States is doing it wrong. These days, Selim is a senior vice president at the Anti-Defamation League in charge of their education and…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Biden Confronts Breitbart Journalist Claiming Trump Didn’t Praise Charlottesville Marchers
Former vice president Joe Biden was fired up on Thursday while arguing with a journalist from the right-wing website Breitbart who claimed that Biden had mischaracterized President Trump’s comments about “very fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville after the 2017 white nationalist riot there. After Biden descended from a podium after his 20-minute speech…
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Fast Forward The Purr-Fect Crime? Jerusalem’s Cats Are Mysteriously Going Missing
Residents of Jerusalem are taking to social media to note something strange – the city’s population of stray cats appears to be going missing, The Jerusalem Post reported last week. Jerusalem is believed to have one of the largest stray-cat populations in the world, with more than 240,000 cats living among 900,000 humans, Israel’s top…
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Fast Forward State Department Suspends Alleged White Supremacist Staffer
The State Department has put on leave an official who has reportedly been a local leader in the white supremacist movement over the last several years, Politico reported Thursday. Matthew Q. Gebert, who was hired in 2013 and works as a foreign affairs officer in the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in Washington, hosted white…
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Fast Forward State Department Official Unmasked As White Nationalist Leader
A State Department official has been leading a secret online life as a white nationalist leader and writer, the Southern Poverty Law Center claimed in an investigation. Matthew Q. Gebert works as a foreign affairs officer in the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in Washington. But over the past few years, according to the SPLC,…
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Fast Forward Sanders: I Support Legalizing Marijuana, But Smoking ‘Made Me Cough A Whole Lot’
In an interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in Southern California on Tuesday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders talked about the importance of legalizing marijuana — and also opened up a bit about his own history of drug use. After talking about the importance of expunging drug records for low-level offenders, Sanders said that he…
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Fast Forward Dayton Gunman Retweeted Longtime Former Forward Contributor
The Twitter account believed to belong to the man who killed nine people in a Dayton, Ohio bar frequently retweeted posts supportive of left-wing figures and movements, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, antifa protesters and, on a few occasions, longtime former Forward contributor Eli Valley. Valley, a cartoonist, has risen in prominence during the Trump administration…
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Fast Forward 5 Things To Know About The Top Republican Who Said Rich Jews Bought Congress
Rep. Tom Emmer has been accused of anti-Semitism after he sent a letter to fellow Republican officeholders claiming that three Jewish Democratic billionaires had “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.” Here’s what you need to know: The letter sparked backlash: Emmer, a third-term congressman representing Minnesota’s exurban Sixth District, is the chair of the…
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