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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.

“At a time when some would isolate Israeli academia, UCLA has chosen collaboration,” Eveline Shekhman of the American Jewish Medical Association told JNS.
“Allowing these campaigns to remain active only rewards hateful behavior and creates a dangerous incentive for others to follow the same path,” Liora Rez of Stop Antisemitism told JNS.
Deena Margolies, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “Jewish faculty, staff and students should be able to report antisemitic discrimination without fear that speaking up will jeopardize their academic or professional futures.”
The Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area and Jewish Silicon Valley said that the state’s agreement with the protesters suggests “that politically motivated destruction of property carries minimal legal consequences.”
The ruling establishes a precedent that the state can “enforce its own orders” against districts “unwilling to acknowledge or address discrimination against Jews and Israelis,” Marleen Sacks, an education attorney, told JNS.
“We already have demonstrated that hate and hateful acts are not going to be tolerated, and so if we could even take it a step further to define antisemitism and what that is like, then I want to be able to take that,” Jeannette Sánchez-Palacios told JNS.
“I did everything I could to not make a federal case out of this, and the mayor instead escalated and retaliated,” Margot Cleveland, who sued the Michigan city, told JNS.
“Michiganders deserve solutions, not slogans—and that’s exactly what Mike will bring to the U.S. Senate,” Alyssa Brouillet, communications director for the Rogers campaign, told JNS.
Rabbi Noah Farkas of the Jewish Federation Los Angeles stated that “we are seeking to reverse a great injustice perpetrated by the Nazi theft of a Jewish family’s property.”
Sarah Rogers, U.S. under secretary of state for public diplomacy, stated that “our reviews found real gaps” in the disclosures from the schools.
“We commend Lincoln Memorial University for its swift action addressing the department’s concerns regarding discrimination and unequal treatment,” Harmeet Dhillon, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, stated.
Ann Tennes, mayor of the heavily Jewish village, told JNS that “there were people trying to cross pushing wheelchairs and with small children,” and “they just didn’t have enough time.”