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Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is the executive director of Amcha Initiative, a nonprofit that combats campus antisemitism. She was on the faculty at UC Santa Cruz for nearly two decades.

Demonstrators hold a FSJP banner during a protest at UC Berkeley in August 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

UC Berkeley faculty’s academic boycott of Israel normalizes Jewish exclusion

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin November 24, 2025November 25, 2025

UC Berkeley’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) used its Instagram account in October to “like” a National Students for Justice in Palestine statement that ended with: “Death […]

“Palestine in Comparative Ethnic Studies Frameworks" will be offered at UCLA this fall. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inEducation

It’s ethnic studies in universities that need watching

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin August 4, 2021
Mrak Hall at UC Davis (Photo/flickr-Peter Alfred Hess CC BY 2.0)
Posted inLocal Voice

Boycotts against Israel are real threat at UCs

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin February 5, 2019February 5, 2019
the stencil says "my heroes have always killed colonizers"
Posted inOpinion

Academics who boycott Israel hurt their own students and colleagues

Tammi Rossman-BenjaminLeila Beckwith by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and Leila Beckwith November 10, 2017
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Posted inOpinion

Campus anti-racism protests trample Jewish concerns

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin December 11, 2015December 13, 2024
Posted inOpinion

As long as you choose to be on that side, I’m going to continue to hate you

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin November 27, 2014February 5, 2020
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Posted inOpinion

Call for boycotting is thinly veiled anti-Semitic campaign

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin May 2, 2014December 29, 2016

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