Penn Under Investigation By Another House Committee Over Antisemitism Allegations, Tax-Exempt Status

By Laura Fay, CBS News Philadelphia Staff

January 12, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The University of Pennsylvania is under investigation by another congressional committee. This time the House Ways and Means Committee is looking into its tax-exempt status because of alleged antisemitism on campus.

The committee's chair, Rep. Jason Smith, a Republican from Missouri, sent a letter Jan. 10 to Penn's Interim President J. Larry Jameson as well as the presidents of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University and the interim president of Harvard University.

The schools have to "provide Congress with additional information regarding their failure to condemn Hamas' terrorist attacks on Israel and subsequent failure to protect Jewish students on their campuses," according to a press release from the committee about the letter.

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