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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.

“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.”
Byron Scott, a part of the “showtime” era of the Los Angeles Lakers, told JNS that he “would like for more athletes to be a little more vocal” on the subject.
Alyza Lewin, of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS that some of the things that speakers said at the event raised “concerns in my mind.”
“Democratic primary voters in Los Angeles now have the misfortune of having to choose between total incompetence in Mayor Bass and radicalism in Ms. Raman,” Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS.
The issue is a “failure of governance,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS.
Antisemitism “subtly” hits students repeatedly until they become “numb to it,” a senior at San Diego State University told JNS.
“I’ve never had someone shoot an intercontinental ballistic missile towards me,” the executive producer of “Red Alert” told JNS on the red carpet. “It’s very odd. It’s a messed up feeling.”