Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

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May 2, 2017, 8:43 PM

The Real Facts About Campus Anti-Semitism

Those of us who care deeply about the safety and well-being of Jewish students would like nothing more than for Mitchell Bard to be correct. For several years and as recently as last week, Bard has repeatedly claimed that reports of...

Nov 17, 2015, 8:41 PM

A staggering 70% of Jewish students experienced anti-Semitism at UC

A new survey reveals a disturbing escalation of anti-Semitic incidents at the University of California

May 22, 2015, 6:14 AM

Schools Must Do More to Protect Jewish Students

On college campuses where anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns have been promoted, antisemitic behavior has dramatically increased, creating a grim reality for many Jewish students. The University of California, ground zero for BDS, provides a prime example. Just in...

Apr 24, 2015, 10:44 PM

20+ Groups Outraged Cornel West To Keynote UCLA Event Honoring Abraham Heschel

An open letter to the director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies: We represent 23 organizations with hundreds of thousands of supporters and members who are deeply concerned about the alarming rise of antisemitism on campuses across the country,...

Dec 18, 2014, 7:47 PM

Anthropologists, the Latest to Jump on the BDS Bandwagon

Anthropologists are the most recent group of Israel bashers to publicly link their academic identity with their hatred of Israel. Earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the organization’s members rejected by an overwhelming...

Dec 10, 2014, 4:37 PM

University of California Must Shield Students From Anti-Israel Hatred

Last week, UAW 2865, the union representing 13,000 graduate instructors on nine University of California (UC) campuses, voted on a resolution calling for the union to join the international campaign for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” against Israel and urging...

Nov 25, 2014, 11:37 PM

Leaked: SJP plans illegal activity against Jewish students and Israel

The document schools member of the pro-Palestinian organization on how to disrupt 'Zionist' events on campus

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About Me

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the cofounder and director of AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization devoted to investigating, documenting, educating about, and combating campus antisemitism in America. She was nominated for Jewish Hero of the Year by the Jewish Federation of North America in 2011 and was named one of 2013’s Bright Pro-Israel Lights on U.S. Campuses by the Jewish Press. Articles and opinion pieces from Rossman-Benjamin have been published in the New York Daily News, Jewish News Service, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, Algemeiner, Independent Sentinel, Jewish Voice, Jewish Post & Opinion, and others.