University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is fighting back against attempts by Marxist/Muslim extremists to smear her as an anti-Palestinian “racist”.

After years of monitoring and exposing anti-Israel extremists and militants on campus, professor Rossman-Benjamin has been targeted as someone who must be silenced.

Rossen-Benjamin’s “racist” remarks are actually simple statements of fact.

According to Ali Abuminah‘s Electronic Intifada, Benjamin-Rossman’s hateful speech includes this statement:

“Primarily the MSA [Muslim Student Association] and the SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] students … they are generally motivated by very strong religious and political convictions, they have a fire in their belly, they come to the university, many of them are foreign students who come from countries and cultures where anti-Semitism is how they think about the world … These are not your ordinary student groups like College Republicans or Young Democrats. These are students who come with a serious agenda, who have ties to terrorist organizations.”

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin will NOT be intimidated and she will NOT be silenced. She is taking the fight to the radicals.

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

UC Student Groups Harass and Defame University Faculty Member for Exposing

Their Antisemtitic Behavior

Faculty Member Calls on UC Leaders to Open Immediate Investigation

University of California Santa Cruz faculty member Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is currently the target of a vicious coordinated campaign of harassment and defamation by the Committee for Justice in Palestine (CJP) and other affiliated Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) groups on UC campuses.

For the past several years, Rossman-Benjamin has been documenting alarming incidents of antisemitism on UC campuses, including those perpetrated by the SJP and Muslim Students Association (MSA) groups and their members.

In retaliation, members of SJP/CJP groups recently launched a series of efforts to discredit and silence her, including:

According to Rossman-Benjamin, SJP and CJP’s virulent response is just one example of the ongoing intimidation and bullying tactics used by these groups to silence anyone who speaks out against their antisemitic behavior, including:

MSA and SJP members have been responsible for physically harassing and assaulting Jewish students, vandalizing Jewish communal property, disrupting pro-Israel speakers, and aggressively confronting Jewish students at events.

MSA and SJP chapters consistently sponsor speakers, films, and exhibits that engage in discourse or use language considered antisemitic by the U.S. State Department.

MSA and SJP chapters associate with individuals and organizations that are linked to terrorist activity and call for violence against Jews.

As a result of the hostile environment created by the activities above, Jewish students have reported feeling physically unsafe, harassed, and intimidated, and some have even reported leaving the university, avoiding certain parts of campus, and hiding symbols of their Jewishness.

Rossman-Benjamin has written a letter to UC President Mark Yudof documenting the antisemitic behavior of SJP and MSA groups on UC campuses and calling on UC leaders to take the immediate action by:

Investigating these two student organizations to determine if their behavior violates university policies or state and federal laws, and if so, to take appropriate disciplinary measures that ensure the safety and well-being of all members of the campus community. Publicly affirming the right of all members of the campus community to speak out against anti-Jewish bigotry without fear of harassment, demonization, and defamation.

Please find Rossman-Benjamin’s letter to UC President Yudof HERE and attached to this email.

If only two per cent of U.S. college professors were as courageous as Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, American universities would be completely different.

Give Tammi any encouragement you can. We’ll keep tabs on battles and report back as things unfold.

Courage like Tammi Rossman-Benjamin’s must be supported.