'We have grave concerns': Republicans seek documents from UPenn in antisemitism probe

House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., this week demanded that the University of Pennsylvania provide the panel with materials related to its handling of antisemitism on campus.

In December, then-UPenn President Liz Magill attracted national scrutiny during a congressional hearing last year before the panel in which she, then-Harvard President Claudine Gay, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth failed to clearly condemn calls for genocide against Jews in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Magill resigned her post in December amid significant backlash. Gay resigned in January, in part due to a plagiarism scandal while Kornbluth has kept her position thus far.

"We have grave concerns regarding the inadequacy of Penn’s response to antisemitism on its campus," Foxx wrote to UPenn leaders, according to The Hill, observing that "Penn's failure to address antisemitism on its campus has been harshly and widely rebuked."

She further set a deadline of Feb. 7 for the school to provide the panel with the materials, among them documentation of foreign donations from the Qatar Foundation and a report on antisemitic incidents since 2021.

The panel opened the probe in December in the aftermath of the hearing.

"We will use our full congressional authority to hold these schools accountable for their failure on the global stage," House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said at the time.

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