The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has launched an extensive investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism on the UCSC campus. The investigation comes in the wake of a 2009 complaint by lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin. Rossman-Benjamin, who teaches Hebrew on campus, has also published a paper titled “Anti-Zionism and the Abuse of Academic Freedom: A Case Study at the University of California, Santa Cruz.” According to her, no other group on campus has been subjected to “such hostile and demonizing criticism” as Jewish students.
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has launched an extensive investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism on the UCSC campus. The investigation comes in the wake of a 2009 complaint by lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin. Rossman-Benjamin, who teaches Hebrew on campus, has also published a paper titled “Anti-Zionism and the Abuse of Academic Freedom: A Case Study at the University of California, Santa Cruz.” According to her, no other group on campus has been subjected to “such hostile and demonizing criticism” as Jewish students.
Former Office for Civil Rights head Kenneth Marcus notes that one of the reasons the OCR has decided to investigate the allegations is that it comes in the wake of similar investigations at UC Berkeley. The office wants to determine whether this is part of a larger trend on UC campuses. Read more at Business Wire.
