In Response to a Brandeis Center Client Complaint, Adelphi Rules SJP Social Media Activity Harmed Jewish Community Washington, D.C. (August 7, 2025) – Rory Lancman, Director of Corporate Initiatives and Senior Counsel at The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and a former New York State Assembly Member and New York City Councilmember, issued the following statement today in response to Adelphi University’s decision to place its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter on a one-year Disciplinary Probation, following a Brandeis Center client’s complaint regarding a hostile environment: “Adelphi’s decision that its SJP chapter, like SJP chapters at colleges across the country, has created a hostile environment for Jews is an important victory for Adelphi’s beleaguered Jewish community. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a real effort on Adelphi’s part to redress the anti-Semitism that SJP, and, sadly, some of its faculty allies, have fomented on campus. SJP statements that Adelphi correctly describes as ‘calling for the harm of Jewish community members, dehumanizing Jewish individuals, and inciting violence/aggression toward Jewish individuals’ have no place on a college campus, or anywhere else for that matter.” The Adelphi ruling states: “The number and content of the social media posts over a protracted period of time was found to be subjectively and objectively offensive and so severe or pervasive to constitute a hostile environment towards those who identified of Jewish identity. When looking at this from a reasonable person standard, it would be reasonable to infer that if someone who is Jewish viewed these posts, they may feel targeted, or unsafe, in their educational program or activity and may decline to participate or change their participation as a result.” The Brandeis Center’s client, Israeli-American Professor Tuval Foguel, filed a complaint with Adelphi University alleging that SJP’s social media activity was creating a hostile environment for the school’s Jewish community. Concerns focused on posts from the SJP account celebrating October 7th as a “historic day,” and exclaiming “Long Live the Intifada” and “Adelphi is no place for Zionists.”