A group of University of Pennsylvania professors have sued the school, alleging its cooperation with Congressional investigations into anti-Semitic activity on campus have compromised their free speech and privacy rights, and are tantamount to a modern form of “McCarthyism.”
Huda Fakhreddine, Troutt Powell and Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on March 9 versus the University of Pennsylvania. All parties are of Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania faculty received a demand from the House Committee on Education & the Workforce this past January for a host of records related to anti-Semitism on campus, such as teaching materials and email messages.
