Tammi Rossman Benjamin: Analysis on Campus Advocacy

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Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is the director of AMCHA Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to combating antisemitism at colleges and universities in the United States. She was a faculty member at the University of California for 20 years.

Georgetown University students march during an on-campus protest in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2024. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

From academic guardians to political operatives

The American Association of University Professors' reversal of its opposition to academic boycotts is a blow not just to Jewish students but to society.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Sept. 10, 2024

A gate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Credit: Ganna Tokolova/Shutterstock.

Protect Jewish and Zionist students on campus

The verbal harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students is generally treated as free speech and ignored or downplayed by school administrators.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Jan. 26, 2022

Author and commentator Julianne Malveaux delivers an address at
St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Sacramento, California, in 2019. Source: Screenshot.

What Cal State LA’s new ethnic-studies dean may mean for Jewish students

Julianne Malveaux’s anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist views are not unique—in fact, they are shared by many others in the discipline, including at her own institution.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

July 14, 2021

The California Department of Education building in downtown
Sacramento. Credit: ZikG/Shutterstock.

‘Liberated’ ethnic studies curriculum fails to liberate California schools from anti-Semitism

The governor promised that California’s original ethnic studies curriculum “would never see the light of day,” but Hayward Unified School District has approved a new model that sparks similar concerns.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

July 1, 2021

John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor in the American Culture department at the University of Michigan, cited the BDS movement in his September, 2018 decision to withhold a letter of recommendation for a Jewish student seeking to study abroad in Israel. Credit: Screenshot.

University of Michigan and Pitzer College are just the tip of the iceberg

University leaders across the country must loudly condemn faculty who would implement an academic boycott of Israel that deprives students of educational opportunities and academic rights in the name of personal politics.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Jan. 22, 2019

Pro-Palestinian students disrupt an Israel event on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. Credit: Ariana Rowlands/Campus Reform.

A new approach to fighting campus anti-Semitism

In the wake of recent controversies involving the disruption and canceling of campus events, many university leaders have adopted the University of Chicago’s statement on freedom of speech—a statement that has become the gold standard on free speech for universities across the country.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

June 12, 2018

Jewish students face a climate of anti-Israel intimidation on several California campuses, including from UC Berkeley SJP. Credit: Students for Justice in Palestine at University of California, Berkeley.

The Jewish Exception to Free Speech on Campus

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

July 29, 2016

A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) protest against Israel in Melbourne, Australia. Credit: Mohamed Ouda via Wikimedia Commons.

From Durban to Los Angeles: the BDS movement’s long trail of anti-Semitism

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

March 12, 2015

"Israeli Apartheid Week," an annual anti-Zionist initiative, in May 2010 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus. Credit: AMCHA Initiative.

While global anti-Semitism surges, don’t forget U.S. campuses

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

July 28, 2014