University of Pennsylvania Faces Anti-Semitism Probe as House Committee Demands Documents

Published on January 25, 2024

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has demanded that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) provide documents and information regarding its response to anti-Semitism amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents on its campus. “We have grave concerns regarding the inadequacy of Penn’s response to anti-Semitism on its campus,” the committee’s chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) wrote in a letter dated Jan. 24 to the university’s chair of the board of trustees, Ramanan Raghavendran, and interim president Larry Jameson. “An environment of pervasive anti-Semitism has been documented at Penn dating back to well before the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks,” the letter noted. It cited Brandeis University’s study, which ranks Penn last in the “highest anti-Semitic hostility” category “consisting of the most hostile 25 percent of universities surveyed.”...

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