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If you’ve watched to Fox News or read Breitbart in the past, say, eight years, it’s likely that you’ve heard (or seen) the name “Saul Alinsky.” He’s frequently invoked by the likes of Sean Hannity as the bogeyman. So just who is this guy, and why does the Right love to say his name? Saul…
During his presidential campaign, Ben Carson said he is proud of his bluntness and thick skin, and an eight-year-old video clip, demonstrates his consistency: Trump’s nominee to lead the Housing and Urban Development Department, made a gag about the Holocaust — in front of a Holocaust survivor. In the clip, Carson is heard joshing about…
(JTA) — Two days into the coronation of Donald J. Trump, the arrival of Saul Alinsky, in all his dead Jewish radical glory, was not a surprise. Lucifer, on the other hand, was an unexpected guest, brought into the proceedings by Ben Carson, the rival Trump defeated. Alinsky is the community organizer and author whose…
CLEVELAND — Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson criticized Hillary Clinton for admiring Saul Alinsky, a far-left activist who praised “Lucifer” in his most famous book. Speaking at the tail-end of the Republican National Convention Tuesday, Carson said Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was unfit for the presidency because Alinsky was one of her…
A number of leaders of Jewish groups signed a public letter condemning “highly offensive” remarks targeting Muslims by two Republican presidential candidates. The letter, published Dec. 21 in the Washington Post and posted on social media, cites George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., which said that the U.S. Constitution “gives…
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson cancelled a trip to Israel, citing “security concerns.” Carson had been scheduled to travel to Israel on Dec. 27 and meet with Israeli government officials, and then travel to Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria, returning to the United States on January 2, 2016, according to the Washington Post. “The trip has…
Donald Trump stumbled at the Republican Jewish Coalition conference when he said he didn’t want the tribe’s money and was simpatico because, like “you folks,” he too is a good haggler. He wasn’t the only one who made some boneheaded remarks. Ben Carson, brain surgeon, also had some notable slip-ups. If you could get past…
Jewish refugee advocates blasted Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s comments after a visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan for underestimating the scope and complexity of a global crisis. Carson, a leading candidate in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, visited the Zaatari camp for refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war over the…
