Officials with the Trump administration have officially dropped their request for the University of Pennsylvania to hand over a list of names of Jewish people on campus, according to new court documents. This comes months after a federal judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand ove r records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination but said it did not have to reveal any employee’s affiliation with a specific group. But, on July 23, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission submitted a request for dismissal of that subpoena. It is not unusual for federal investigators looking into employment discrimination to request identities of employees of a particular religion, to facilitate outreach to people who may have been victims, according to a former federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation was prompted in part by a series of incidents, including that someone had shouted antisemitic obscenities and destroyed property at a Jewish student life center, a Nazi swastika was painted on an academic building and “hateful graffiti” was left outside a fraternity. The investigation has also focused on actions related to protests over the war in Gaza, and Penn’s response to that and other incidents. The EEOC claimed in a November filing that Penn’s “workplace is replete with antisemitism,” and it told the judge that investigators think “identification of those who have witnessed and/or been subjected to the environment is essential for determining whether the work environment was both objectively and subjectively hostile.” “We have long supported the EEOC’s commitment to addressing antisemitism at Penn but, as we’ve said, demanding lists of Jewish employees and campus organizations is a different matter, one with a troubling history we cannot ignore. We’re pleased the EEOC has apparently agreed not to pursue its requests for sensitive information and that information was not disclosed. We’ll continue working with our partners to support Jewish students, staff and faculty at Penn.,” Andrew Goretsky, Senior Regional Director, ADL Philadelphia wrote in a statement on July 23. Colleges Universities Mar 31 Judge says Penn must turn over information about Jewish employees in U.S. discrimination probe University of Pennsylvania Nov 18, 2025 EEOC looks to enforce subpoena around alleged antisemitism at Penn University of Pennsylvania Oct 31, 2025 UPenn investigating after ‘fraudulent' email was sent out to students, alum University of Pennsylvania Aug 15, 2025 University of Pennsylvania law school pauses programs focused on diversity Transgender rights Jul 1, 2025 UPenn to ban transgender athletes, feds say, ending civil rights case This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less