Government Subpoena: Give us names and physical addresses of your Jew-related people ...

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/eeoc-university-pennsylvania-antisemitism-jewish.html

At UPenn:

The subpoena seeks contact information for employees who have filed complaints about discrimination based on Jewish faith, those who belong to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program, according to the lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The information is “relevant to the EEOC’s investigation of potential unlawful employment practices, namely religious, national origin, and race-based harassment,” the E.E.O.C. says in a court filing.

At Barnard College:

Current and former employees of Barnard College, a women’s college affiliated with Columbia, received text messages in April asking them to participate in an E.E.O.C.-related survey that included a question about whether they were Israeli or Jewish.

Barnard’s general counsel soon after told employees that the college had given the commission contact information for the workers ...

At UC Berkeley:

University of California officials faced a backlash earlier this year after they turned over information about roughly 160 people from the University of California, Berkeley, who had been connected, however loosely, to complaints about antisemitism. ...

[Mik]

Maybe they're trying to actually do something about rising antisemitism. But this is being represented as the beginnings of a new pogrom. I can see how it might ruffle some feathers.

[Axtremus]

Instead of forcing employers/institutions to hand over lists of names and contact information, a more voluntary approach maybe to set up a hotline (and the cyber equivalent) for people who want federal government attention to specific matters to contact.