California House Runoff Tests Pro-Israel Electoral Power

Today’s lead: a late, multimillion-dollar pro-Israel intervention has turned California’s 14th District special election into a test of whether outside spending can overcome a 26-point primary gap.

Also tracking: a Bay Area ethnic-studies curriculum that frames Palestinian history through “settler colonialism”, and an elected Brooklyn Democratic official’s renewed use of antisemitic conspiracy language.

In the wire: U.S. criticism of an alleged Israeli strike in Syria, Florida’s far-right primary test, and a House dispute over hosting Hasan Piker on a public campus.