The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a court filing Monday, defended its subpoena seeking potential witnesses and victims of antisemitism at the university and said the request is not unusual for such investigations. The commission is seeking employees' names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses to further an investigation it began in 2023 over the school's treatment of Jewish faculty and other employees regarding antisemitism complaints following Hamas' attack on Israel. "The EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent " and indeed, over the objections " of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry," the university wrote in its filing.