Adelphi University, a private school in Garden City, N.Y., put the campus Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on “disciplinary probation for a year” after determining that it would be “reasonable to infer” that a Jew who viewed the group’s social media posts “may feel targeted or unsafe.”

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law posted a letter that Adelphi’s community concerns and resolution office sent to the center’s client, Israeli-American math and computer science professor Tuval Foguel, who filed a complaint against the SJP chapter. The university told Foguel that it determined that the student group “created a hostile environment towards the Jewish community.”

The university flagged social media posts of the chapter, including one that stated, “One year sin

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