Pro-Palestinian faculty sue to stop Penn from giving wide swath of files to Congress
Associated PressPHILADELPHIA — Pro-Palestinian faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have sued the Ivy League school to stop it from sending sensitive internal material to a congressional committee investigating antisemitism on campus — a probe they call “a new form of McCarthyism.” Professor Huda Fakhreddine and other members of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine fear the school is poised to send files, emails, student records and other material to Congress, putting both their safety and academic freedom at risk. The 14-page request from the Republican-led committee, dated Jan. 24, seeks a wide swath of material on Penn’s handling over two years of everything from antisemitic social media posts to foreign donations to performance metrics for its Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. “When Congress knocks on your door, it’s really hard to tell them to go away,” said lawyer Shahily Negron, who represents Fakhreddine and the others. Fakhreddine’s suit notes that the House Committee on Education and the Workforce sent Penn only a voluntary request for the material, not a legally binding subpoena.
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