Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administrationās efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania ā including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses ā as government abuse with āominous historical overtonesā.
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 administrationās stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the governmentās demand as āa visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ālists of Jewsā conjures a terrifying historyā, according to a press release put out by the groupsā lawyers.
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āThese requests would require Penn to create and turn over a centralized registry of Jewish students, faculty, and staff ā a profoundly invasive and dangerous demand that intrudes deeply into the freedoms of association, religion, speech, and privacy enshrined in the First Amendment,ā the groups argued.
Iād rather bet they knew the dangers of it the entire time. Itās pretty clear they WANT Jews in the rest of the world to feel unsafe where they are so that they consider migrating to Israel.
There was a moment in one of Bibiās previous terms when Israel was experiencing a massive brain drain primarily to Germany. He published a letter in response in (I believe) Haaretz basically trying to say Germany (and by extension the rest of the world) was horribly dangerous for Jews and only Israel could keep them safe. His administration has said something similar more recently, iirc.