Posts Tagged: Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
Outrage Greets Pro-BDS Petition to University of California Blaming Israel for Teaching Methods That Killed George Floyd
Outrage erupted on Thursday as a ferociously anti-Israel petition to the University of California blaming Israel for police brutality and the murder of people of...
Outrage After Leading Academic Association Awards Professor Who Engaged in Hate Speech Against ‘Zionist’ Students
Outrage over the weekend greeted the decision by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to give an award to a San Francisco State University...
What Will Trump’s Executive Order on Antisemitism Mean for Jewish Students?
Since its announcement earlier this month, US President Donald Trump's executive order on combating antisemitism has drawn both praise and criticism, underscoring the tensions that...
Jewish Students, Groups Applaud University of Michigan for ‘Strong’ Response to Faculty Who Refused to Give Recommendations for Israel Study
The University of Michigan is being applauded by Jewish students and advocacy groups, after it announced "serious consequences" for instructors who withhold letters of recommendation due to...
Amid Anti-Israel Controversy, U. Michigan Faculty Urge Professors to Place Student ‘Merit’ Over Politics, but Concerns Persist
An executive faculty body at the University of Michigan on Monday urged professors to base their letters of recommendations on "student’s merit," after a professor refused to write one...
New Study Exposes How Faculty Support of Israel Boycotts Intensifies Antisemitism on Campuses
Effort by faculty members to promote academic boycotts of Israel in American universities pose a serious threat to the wellbeing of Jewish students, and raise...
The Anatomy of a BDS Campus Campaign
Following dramatically different outcomes of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) votes at two California schools on last week, campus antisemitism and Israel advocacy experts spoke with The...
New Interactive Maps Detail Geography, Intensity of Campus Antisemitism
A new interactive map project created by a watchdog group highlights "three key ingredients of campus antisemitism," its initiator told The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, founder of the AMCHA...
Watchdog Launches Pictoral Social Media Project to Expose Antisemitic Activity on Campus
A new social media project aims to visually expose anti-Jewish activity on campus, the head of the organization behind the initiative told The Algemeiner. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin,...
New Israeli Initiative to Equip Jewish High School Students With Tools to Counter Campus Anti-Zionism Lauded by Advocacy Groups
A new Israeli initiative to prepare high school students to deal with and confront anti-Zionist activity that they are liable to encounter when they get to college was...
Fordham University Facing Backlash for Rejecting SJP on Campus
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) recently condemned Fordham University for banning the radical group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) from campus. The NLG claims that Fordham's decision...
Campus Watchdogs: Student Protesters Taking Advantage of Anti-Trump Rage to Attack Israel
Campus watchdogs accused student activists on Wednesday of taking advantage of the rage being expressed against the newly instated Trump administration in Washington to further an...
Campus Watchdogs Laud Fordham University’s Decision to Ban Notoriously Anti-Israel Student Group
Watchdogs lauded the recent decision by a New York academic institution to prevent a notoriously anti-Israel group from organizing on its campus. AMCHA Initiative co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and others...
Watchdog: Unclear if Spike in Antisemitic Incidents Across US Campuses Since Presidential Election is Coming From Left or Right
The motivating forces behind the major spike in antisemitic incidents at universities across the US since the November 8 presidential election remain unknown, the head of a...
