After recent disciplining of Campus SJP chapter, Brandeis Center demands Adelphi take strong remedial action Washington, D.C. (September 4, 2025) – The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law today commended Adelphi University for ruling that a faculty member, who is also a member of Adelphi’s Bias Response Team and faculty appointments committee, created a hostile environment for Jews on campus. The Brandeis Center’s client who filed the complaint against the faculty member had also filed a complaint that led to Adelphi’s recent decision to suspend and then place on one-year disciplinary probation Adelphi’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter. The Brandeis Center now demands that the University follow through with appropriate remedial action to protect Adelphi’s Jewish community. Adelphi’s investigation concluded on August 15, 2025, that Professor Sarah Eltabib, Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and SJP’s faculty advisor, “created a hostile environment for Adelphi’s Jewish community in violation of” Adelphi’s discrimination and harassment policy. The findings include the following determinations: That certain of Prof. Eltabib’s social media posts constituted “(i) harassing conduct; (ii) on the basis of actual or perceived membership in a protected class; (iii) that creates an intimidating, hostile, and offensive environment for Jewish community members on campus;” That “a reasonable person would consider [the social media posts] to be unwelcome conduct that is intimidating, hostile, and offensive to Adelphi’s Jewish community;” That “Witnesses, even those who do not identify as Jewish, associated the posts with feelings of offense, fear, and anger…;” and That Prof. Eltabib’s leadership “positions with SJP and the BRT [Bias Response Team], in connection with [her] social media posts, contribute to that hostile environment.” Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, Prof. Eltabib waged a campaign of ethnic hatred that encompassed a cornucopia of unlawful anti-Semitic and national origin discrimination. In addition to those social media posts specifically cited in Adelphi’s determination, this campaign includes denying the rape of Israeli women on October 7, 2023; blaming the Jewish state for crises such as American homeslessness and budget cuts to the L.A. Fire Department that hurt victims of the L.A. wildfires; promoting conspiracy theories blaming Israel for the United States’ TikTok ban; and describing Israel as the source of “all censorship and attacks on free speech.” These social media posts were featured in the Brandeis Center’s letter to Adelphi demanding appropriate remedial action. The investigation determined that the offending posts were “distinct from political criticism of the Israeli government,” targeting “Israel” or “Israelis” broadly rather than the Israeli government or its officials. The determination went on to outline: “As Complainants and several witnesses credibly explained, Zionism is considered by many to be part of the ethnic identity of Jewish people so a reasonable person could view [Prof. Eltabib’s] posts critical of Zionism as targeting national origin, shared ancestry, and ethnic characteristics.” This ruling follows the recent suspension of Adelphi’s SJP chapter after Israeli-American Professor Tuval Foguel filed a complaint with the University alleging that SJP’s social media activity was creating a hostile environment for the school’s Jewish community. After reviewing SJP posts celebrating October 7 as a “historic day,” declaring “Long Live the Intifada,” and proclaiming “Adelphi is no place for Zionists,” the University agreed that the posts were “subjectively and objectively offensive” and placed the SJP chapter on a one-year Disciplinary Probation. “This is the second time in a month that Adelphi has acknowledged that Jewish students were subjected to a hostile environment, this time by one of their own professors,” said Hon. Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman and CEO of the Brandeis Center and the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education who ran the Office of Civil Rights during two administrations. “Schools have been far too slow to address faculty abuse on campus, creating a climate of fear for Jewish students. It is high time they realize that ignoring anti-Semitism will not make it go away. Strict enforcement of policies, followed by accountability and appropriate discipline, is key to curbing this escalating problem. Adelphi University should be a model for other institutions in recognizing that faculty misconduct and organizational extremism cannot and will not be tolerated, so long as they take the necessary action to address the issue.” The Brandeis Center has called on Adelphi to take the following steps, in line with Adelphi’s own discrimination and harassment policy as well as Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York State Human Rights Law, to address the faculty harassment and help prevent further harm towards Adelphi’s Jewish community: Professor Eltabib should no longer serve as faculty advisor to any student organization; Professor Eltabib should be required to conform her public commentary and social media activity to Adelphi’s anti-harassment policy and undergo training on appropriate online conduct — the same measures imposed on the SJP chapter; Professor Eltabib should no longer serve on Adelphi’s Bias Response Team and the Faculty Committee on Retention, Tenure, and Promotion; and Adelphi should impose oversight and conditions on Professor Eltabib’s teaching of courses on the Israel/Palestinian conflict, genocide, and related topics. “Our satisfaction with Adelphi’s findings is exceeded only by our expectation that Adelphi will take concrete steps to remedy the harm caused by Prof. Eltabib’s campaign of ethnic hatred and act to prevent her, and anyone else, from creating a discriminatory hostile environment for Adelphi’s Jewish community in the future,” said Hon. Rory Lancman, Senior Counsel at the Brandeis Center and a former member of the New York State Assembly and New York City Council. “Adelphi has to ask itself how such a person, whose hateful views were out in the open for all to see, could have ever been entrusted to serve on Adelphi’s Bias Response Team and as a member of a committee empowered to influence hiring and promotion decisions at Adelphi.”“The impact of these posts on Adelphi’s campus has been profound and deeply troubling,” said Professor Tuval Foguel, who filed the initial complaint. “Several students have shared that they no longer feel safe wearing their yarmulkes on campus, and faculty members have expressed feeling unwelcome and afraid. To my fellow educators: when you witness hate, do not stay silent. Speak up. We have a responsibility to foster a campus environment where every student, staff member, and faculty member feels they truly belong—where they can learn, grow, and express themselves fully without fear of discrimination or harassment.”