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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.

The co-author of the K-12 law told JNS that “this attempt to undermine crucial safety protections for Jewish children at a time when antisemitic hate and violence is rampant and rising is breathtaking.”
Lowell Milken, of the Milken Family Foundation, told JNS that the recipient, Ellen Dooley, is an “extraordinary instructional leader.”
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that “UCLA administrators allegedly allowed virulent antisemitism to flourish on campus.”
“If the pattern holds over time and continues to grow as the months get warmer, then you start to look at things that changed at the turn of the year that might have explained it,” Rafael Mangual, of the Manhattan Institute, told JNS.
“Statewide resources should reflect organizations that broadly represent the Jewish community,” Jonathan Schulman, of the Jewish Majority, told JNS.
The decision “was made by the speaker’s team, not UCLA,” the school’s associate vice chancellor for campus and community safety told JNS.
Elijah Wiesel, a sophomore who saw the graffiti, told JNS that, while the incident does not appear to have had much campus impact, it seems to reflect “broader Jew-hatred on campus.”
“No activist judge, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from” revoking the privilege of being granted a U.S. visa or green card, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told JNS.
Jeff Rosen, district attorney for Santa Clara County, told JNS that the group’s actions were illegal, “and that is why we will retry the case.”