Hat tip AMCHA Initiative
As I have previously reported, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is an adjunct teacher of Hebrew at UC Santa Cruz (America's Wackiest University). She has been relentless and courageous in making complaints about anti-Semitism on UC and CSU campuses. In response to her activities in standing up to anti-Semitism, she has been the object of relentless attacks by the various UC Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters, as well as something called the Committee for Justice in Palestine. In the past weeks, student governments at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine -under pressure from these groups-have passed resolutions urging that UC President Mark Yudof and other UC officials condemn her publicly as an "Islamophobe". These resolutions are evidence of just how organized and coordinated these groups are.
In response, Tammi's organization, AMCHA Initiative, has issued the below-linked release. You can also access Tammi's letter to President Yudof and write one yourself in Tammi's defense. I will be doing so. Rather than condemn Tammi, Yudof and the respective chancellers should be making a strong statement in defense of her right to free speech and condemning this vicious campaign to smear and intimidate her.
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=0beb330b057061522bbe22a7f&id=90708f5594&e=b6eadb6292
Tammi is long-winded and given to hyperbole, but I wouldn't call her phobic of much of anything. The fact that a faculty member expresses some concerns, however distorted or poorly-founded, is no reason to pass resolutions against her speech. The knee-jerk condemnations are absurd.
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