Penn Professor Who Cheered on Hamas Attack Sues University To Thwart Congressional Investigation
12th March 2024
A University of Pennsylvania professor who cheered on Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel is suing the school in an attempt to stop a federal investigation into its response to campus anti-Semitism.
Huda Fakhreddine, an associate professor of Arabic literature at Penn’s Middle East Center, filed her suit against the school Saturday. It accuses Penn of cracking down on anti-Israel speech and aims to stop the transfer of university documents to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), sent a letter to Penn leaders in January requesting their internal deliberations on anti-Semitic campus incidents.
Penn is cooperating with the request and began submitting documents to the committee last month. Fakhreddine—a vocal critic of the Jewish state who praised “Palestine” for “inventing a new way of life” on Oct. 7—wants the school to stop, citing privacy concerns.