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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.

A Jewish member of the Student Assembly told JNS that she is upset that “resolutions like these are introduced, prioritizing symbolic statements over listening to the students they represent.”
“It is about enforcing the crucial boundary between private speech and institutional advocacy,” the petition states.
“The whole scheme for preventing discrimination is meaningless unless it is enforced,” education attorney Marleen Sacks told JNS.
The Nonprofit Security Grant Program “makes it possible for schools and synagogues to harden physical security, and hire and train private security guards,” said Nathan Diament of the OU Advocacy Center.
“We know there’s evil in the world, and we know they only have to get it right once, and sometimes they do,” the Oakland County sheriff said.
The White House said that “ABC News” should correct its story, which didn’t note the “unverified” nature of the alert.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Gavin Newsom said that California is “actively working with state, local and federal security officials to protect our communities.”
“Even though he recently released a well-publicized ‘apology,’ the real question is whether he has demonstrated any sustained, meaningful change,” Ari Ingel, of Creative Community for Peace, told JNS.
Matt Mahan, mayor of the city, told JNS that “antisemitism and any acts of hatred have no place in San Jose.”
“Schools are taking more action, but we are still at heightened levels of antisemitic incidents on campus,” the Anti-Defamation League told JNS.
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS that the “issue is not just about Jews and Israel” but about “misuse of the institution.”
Jacob Baime, of the Israel on Campus Coalition, told JNS that the number of protests has “already exceeded what we anticipated, and the number is still growing.”