A University of Pennsylvania law school library staff member was filmed tearing down a poster featuring hostages in the Israel-Hamas war in a widely shared video that has sparked outrage and calls for his firing.
In a video shared online by the nonprofit Stop Antisemitism, a man walking across a pedestrian bridge on the university campus can be seen tearing down posters of civilians, including children, who were kidnapped after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
“Why did you tear them down?” the person recording the video asked, to which the man replied, “Get the f— out of my face.”
As he crumples the poster, the videographer tells him, “Innocent people have been killed.”
“There were people killed in the hospital bombing,” he replied, referring to the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday night.
The incident is under investigation, a spokeswoman for the university’s law school said. X / @StopAntisemites
Officials in Gaza said the attack killed at least 500 Palestinians, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that “other forces” were behind the deadly attack.
The man in the video has been identified as Matthew Carson Wranovics, librarian assistant for circulation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey School of Law, by Post Millennial.
Wranovics’ photo also appears to have been scrubbed from the university’s website following the incident, the outlet reported.
Penn Carey Law School spokeswoman Meredith Rovine told The Post on Wednesday that the incident was “a personnel matter under investigation.”
Wranovics did not return The Post’s email request for comment and could not be reached by phone.
Wranovics’ photo also appears to have been scrubbed from the university’s website following the incident.X / @StopAntisemites
Kidnapping posters have been put up in several major cities to shed light on those who have been kidnapped since Hamas attacked Israel.
The incident on campus does not appear to be Wranovics’ first foray into left-wing activism. While studying at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2014, he and 19 other students were arrested during a strike held by the university’s graduate student workers to protest unfair labor practices and worker intimidation.
Similar incidents have occurred across the country, as posters featuring the faces of missing Israeli adults and children have been vandalized or torn down.
Similar incidents involving kidnapping posters have occurred across the country. X / @StopAntisemites
Earlier this week, three NYU students were caught on video tearing down a similar poster filmed outside the university’s Tisch Hall.
One of the students involved, Yazmeen Deyhimi — a junior at a top university who used to work for the Anti-Defamation League — admitted to tearing up the poster in a since-deleted Instagram apology.
“In this age of social media and digital footprints, these moments of anger are selfish and selfish, and do not reflect who I am as a person or who my family has raised me to be,” she wrote.
Deyhimi’s accomplice was doxxed as a university freshman serving as a member of the Muslim Youth Leadership Council at Advocates for Youth.Instagram/sophiagindi_
His alleged accomplice is a university freshman who serves as a member of the Islamic Youth Leadership Council at Advocates for Youth, according to his online profile, while a third student – a man wearing a dark headscarf – has yet to be identified.
Stop Antisemitism also shared a photo taken in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, of the poster that was vandalized on Monday night.
The incident sparked a public outcry demanding that NYU punish Deyhimi and his accomplices. Instagram/sophiagindi_
“Posters for the 199 Israelis abducted (including Americans) by Hamas terrorists to Gaza were defaced last night with graffiti stating ‘apartheid’ — one letter on each poster,” the organization wrote.
At least 1,400 people in Israel and more than 3,000 in Gaza have been killed since Hamas launched its surprise attack on the Jewish state on October 7, prompting the Israeli military to prepare an expected “integrated and coordinated attack from the air, sea and land” in response. . .
Thirty US citizens have been killed since the conflict erupted, while another 13 are still missing.
President Biden said he was “outraged” by the Gaza hospital bombing as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday.
His trip comes as the Israel Defense Forces prepare to invade Gaza to purge Hamas.
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