"Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration's efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses as government abuse with ominous historical overtones. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration's stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses."
"We are entering territory that should shock every single one of us, said Norm Eisen, co-founder and executive chair of the Democracy Defenders Fund on a press call. The fund is representing the faculty groups along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the firm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin and Schiller. That kind of information however purportedly benign the excuses given for it can be put to the most dangerous misuse."
The EEOC demanded that the University of Pennsylvania turn over names and personal information—emails, phone numbers, home addresses—of Jewish students, faculty, and staff as part of efforts to combat antisemitism on campuses. Several faculty groups, the university's Jewish Law Students Association, and other organizations condemned the demand as government abuse that threatens safety and invokes ominous historical parallels. The EEOC sued Penn in November after Penn refused full compliance. Legal filings seek to intervene in the case, arguing that creating a centralized registry for Jewish community members would intrude on freedoms of association, religion, speech, and privacy.
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