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Aaron Bandler is an award-winning national reporter at JNS based in Los Angeles. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked for nearly eight years at the Jewish Journal, and before that, at the Daily Wire.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is among the governors who have opted their states into the program.
“It becomes very confusing what’s international law versus what is Israeli law,” Sharon Levy, an editor at the watchdog, told JNS.
Dan Schnur, a California-based political science lecturer, told JNS that democratic socialist candidates seem to have “a greater obstacle here than in other parts of the country.”
Ilya Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute told JNS that he is concerned that universities will see the change in congressional focus as “a reprieve from accountability.”
“Everybody’s looking for these things to be referendums on a bigger picture, but they’re not paying attention to the micro of it and the candidates themselves,” Darby Levin told JNS.
“In these races, antisemitism wasn’t disqualifying,” Mark Goldfeder of the National Jewish Advocacy Center told JNS.
The state education department said that Orange County School of the Arts didn’t sufficiently address allegations that a teacher discussed the Holocaust inappropriately and wore an anti-Israel shirt to class.
With nearly two-thirds of the votes counted, Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist on the Los Angeles City Council, holds a narrow lead over Mayor Karen Bass.
“They want to make sure that nobody else dares to put principle ahead of party,” Alyza Lewin, of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS. “That’s why I think they’re being particularly nasty.”
Ammaad Akhtar, 34, allegedly told an undercover officer that he wanted to “die in the cause of Allah.”
Political consultant Jared Sclar told JNS that “the fight over Israel moved out of general elections and into Democratic primaries and Democrat-versus-Democrat contests” in California.
“Rather than focus on addressing the incidents in a systemic manner, the district isolated the victim and attempted to make excuses for the antisemitic harassment,” the Anti-Defamation League said.