The Brandeis Center filed a complaint with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights against the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz) on behalf of two Jewish students and Jewish on Campus, after students were excluded from a sexual assault support group that empowers survivors through advocacy work. The students were also publicly castigated, threatened and harassed because of their Jewish and Israeli identities. SUNY New Paltz is permitting a hostile environment on campus that marginalizes and excludes Jewish and Israeli student survivors. The students are left without a place on campus to engage in empowering advocacy work to combat sexual violence while openly expressing pride in their ethnic and national identities. By denying Jewish and Israeli student survivors of sexual assault equal access to educational programs, advocacy opportunities and services that the University provides for survivors, SUNY New Paltz has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Jewish Sexual Assault Victims Expelled from Support Group File Complaint with U.S. Department of Education. Read the press release here.