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 Joe Lieberman Is One Of Ralph Northam’s Only Defenders Amid Blackface Uproar
Nearly every prominent Democrat in America has called on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign after it was revealed that his medical school yearbook page includes a racist photo. A notable exception is one Democrat who has never been afraid to buck his party: Former Connecticut senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman. When asked…
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Fast Forward AOC Praises Corbyn On Twitter. Backlash, Then Hugs, From Jews Ensue.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday that she would be reaching out to the Jewish community after being criticized for praising British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, with whom she had a phone call to discuss issues of shared concern. Corbyn, a longtime staunch critic of Israel who has called members of Hamas and Hezbollah his…
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News How Anti-BDS Laws Went Viral
Two of the most influential people in the country when it comes to American policies toward Israel are a Mormon state representative in South Carolina who used to be an Eagle Scout and a Jewish law professor in Virginia who used to study pirates. You likely haven’t heard of Alan Clemmons or Eugene Kontorovich, but…
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Breaking News This Year’s Hottest Congressional Twitter Beef Is Ilhan Omar vs. Lee Zeldin
It’s not quite the 1856 Brooks–Sumner Affair, when a pro-slavery congressman nearly beat to death an abolitionist senator with a cane. But Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Lee Zeldin of New York have not been afraid the past two weeks to have a war of words. Omar, a Democrat who this year became the…
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Fast Forward Julie Klausner Raises $5K For Planned Parenthood After John Kasich Plane Snafu
Comedian Julie Klausner organized a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood that has netted over $5,000 after an incident on an airplane involving the pro-life former Ohio governor John Kasich. Klausner, the creator and star of the Hulu series “Difficult People,” said on her podcast earlier this month that she had been bumped from her seat by…
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News The White Supremacist Movement Is Down – But Definitely Not Out
Updated February 4 A little over a year ago, Richard Spencer was riding high — a finalist for the Dallas Morning News’ “Texan of the Year” award for his “uncommon negative impact” as a newfangled kind of white supremacist. Yet today, Spencer and his allies in the so-called “alt-right” — a term he coined to…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Is Incredibly Cheap
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s public moves towards running in the 2020 presidential race as an independent candidate have been met with skepticism and anger by many Democrats, who believe his effort will only ensure the reelection of President Donald Trump. The news has also caused many to examine, and then criticize, his financial history….
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Fast Forward Jewish Antifa Group Vandalizes Nazi Collaborator Plaque
Members of a Jewish antifa group defaced a plaque on Monday in New York honoring a French leader who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. The plaque in the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan honored Philippe Petain, a French general in World War I who later led the Vichy regime, which oversaw…
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