בס''ד
I hate banning members. It especially hurts when I have to ban a 16 year old Jewish kid from Israel. But in the case of "Ben m", I had no choice.
Ben wrote to several individuals stating that he was organizing "an underground" in JTF to try to get one of our leading moderators thrown out of the movement.
Ben did this after I gave him many chances to change his behavior. In the past, Ben defended Hitler, described himself as a "fascist", expressed admiration for Mussolini, made racist attacks on Ethiopian Jews, attacked Judaism etc.
Ben publicly apologized on the forum, and claimed to have changed. But his posts clearly demonstrated that he had not changed.
The attempt by Ben to organize a lynch mob against one of our moderators was the last straw.
I still sincerely hope that Ben learns a lesson from this experience and changes his ways. But we cannot have someone like this in our organization any more.