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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.

Eduardo Martinez “is a flagrant antisemite who used his platform to push hatred and misinformation against our community,” Tali Klima of the Bay Area Jewish Coalition-Action told JNS. “We are not sad to see him go.”
Nithya Raman, who has backed calls referring to Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide,” has overtaken Republican Spencer Pratt and appears headed for a November contest against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
“There’s no reason that the process can’t be dramatically accelerated,” Dan Schnur, a political science lecturer, told JNS.
Mika Hackner of the North American Values Institute told JNS that “particular attention should be paid to the ‘local institutions’ tasked with carrying on” the foundation’s programs.
Kurt Schwartz of CAMERA told JNS that editors on the site commit “errors of omission” when they hide Piker’s “indifference to and even denial of Hamas’s sexual assault.”
Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation told JNS that policies restricting ICE cooperation “assist people who are deeply hostile to the United States.”
Tali Klima of the Bay Area Jewish Coalition-Action told JNS that “we will continue to support any candidate who supports the Jewish community and stands up to the extremism that Khanna is intent on spreading.”
The California Democrat told JNS that he’s “proud” of his pro-Israel record and is “gratified to be moving to the general.”
Joel Kotkin of Chapman University told JNS that “whatever disease that led New York to elect Mamdani has not spread quite as badly here.”
The Democratic political consultant Jared Sclar told JNS that “the results will cut in more than one direction, and that split is the story.”
“I like to think of myself as a Bill Clinton Democrat,” Ethan Agarwal told JNS. “Can we restore that?”
“This is an important, if overdue, step toward protecting a knowledge space that should represent historical complexity rather than politicized framing,” Shlomit Lir of the University of Haifa told JNS.