A University of Pennsylvania student who said he felt “empowered and happy” the day Hamas terrorists launched their deadly attack on Israeli civilians has been arrested for stealing an Israeli flag on campus, according to reports.
Tarawneh — a 2020 graduate of King’s Academy in Madaba, Jordan — was arrested Nov. 4 for allegedly stealing an Israeli flag from the front of a Campus Apartments home near the Ivy League campus, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported last week.
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office charged Tarawneh — who once wrote a column denouncing “settler colonization” as a “violent machine” — with theft and receiving stolen property stemming from the Oct. 28 incident, the outlet reported.
Tarawneh gave a hateful speech at a Philadelphia rally last month, with a video of him addressing a pro-Palestinian crowd going viral, the Daily Pennsylvanian, a student-run independent media organization, confirmed.
“I still remember feeling so strong and happy, so confident that the victory was so close and so tangible,” he told people about the terrible October 7 attack.
“I want you all to keep that feeling in your hearts. Never let go. Channel it through every action you take. Take it to the streets.”
The disturbing footage drew widespread criticism online, including from Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) condemned the video in a post on X last week.
University of Pennsylvania student Tara Tarawneh, who is originally from Jordan, has been identified as the man who gave a fiery speech at a pro-Palestinian rally last month praising Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Artmejo A University of Pennsylvania student praised Hamas’ “glorious October 7” terrorist attack on Israel during a rally in Philadelphia last month.
“This is not a patient in a psychiatric hospital,” he wrote. “This is a student at the Ivy League.”
According to an online profile at artmejo.com, Tarawneh considers herself a passionate human rights activist who plans to study English Literature and Art at UPenn, and has written for Taleed Magazine.
In an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian published in September, the controversial coed promoted the upcoming Palestinian Literary Festival on the Philadelphia campus.
“For a country and people who have experienced a history of colonization, displacement and erasure, the festival is a very important cultural preservation site,” he wrote in a September 14 piece.
He denounced “settler colonization,” calling it “a violent machine that aims to eliminate any semblance of Palestinian existence, including the Palestinian narrative of their own history.”
A spokeswoman for the university declined to comment to The Post this week but referred a reporter to the president’s recent remarks denouncing antisemitism at a trustee meeting.
UPenn President Liz Magil acknowledged an increase in antisemitic acts on campus including “swastikas and hateful graffiti” as well as “singing at rallies” that she said “celebrate and praise the slaughter and kidnapping of innocent people, and that calls into question Israel’s right to exist.”
University of Pennsylvania student Tara Tarawneh praised Hamas’ sneak attack on Israel at a pro-Palestinian rally last month, calling the terror attack “magnificent.” A banner at a pro-Palestinian rally in Philadelphia last month, where a speaker praised Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel.
Magil said he was sickened, horrified and angry.
“I personally condemn these hateful – hateful – antisemitic acts and words, which are nothing short of inhumane,” he said at a meeting earlier this month.
“And I assure you that Penn has and will investigate any act of hate on our campus and take action fully in accordance with our policies and laws.”
Tarawneh did not return an email from The Post seeking comment.
Radical Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7 in a surprise attack that left 1,400 Israelis dead, almost all of them civilians, with more than 220 others taken hostage by the militants.
Israel responded by launching an attack on the Gaza Strip — with the conflict sparking widespread fighting between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters.
College campuses — including at other Ivy League schools Columbia, Cornell, Yale and Harvard — have become hotbeds for disruptive anti-Israel protests.
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