A University of Pennsylvania student reportedly said he felt “so empowered and happy” that Palestinian independence seemed within reach on the same day Hamas militants attacked Israel and killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, according to a video.
The clip, which was circulated online and re-shared by Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres, showing the back of a woman — reportedly a junior at an Ivy League college — clad in a keffiyeh as she passionately spoke into a microphone to a crowd at a pro-Palestine rally in Philadelphia.
He asked the audience to remember the photos of Palestinians scaling the barbed wire fence between Israel and Gaza and the “joyful and powerful images that came from glorious October 7” – when bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists crossed the border into Israel and shot and killed dozens of families in their homes and hundreds of young people at music festivals.
He asked the cheering crowd to keep the image in their minds and remember how they felt when they first saw the image and heard the news.
A student from UPenn was seen talking fondly of the “joyous” image of slaughtered Israelis from “glorious October 7.”
He was “happy” when he heard the news of Jews dying in Israel.
In what appeared to be a call to violence, he told the crowd to “hold that feeling in … pic.twitter.com/pdygANFmtY
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) November 6, 2023
“I still remember feeling so energetic and happy, so confident that victory was close and so tangible,” he said. “I want you all to keep that feeling in your hearts. Never let it go. Channel it through every action you take. Take it to the streets.
“Go to the streets every day and don’t ever let them feel that you are silently accepting this genocide,” the student said of the relentless Israeli airstrikes.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, including more than 4,100 children and 2,640 women, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas.
The speaker mentioned only two images — a photo of men and children smiling as they sat on top of an Israeli army jeep captured by “freedom fighters and an image of a bulldozer crossing the “border of death.”
However, Torres added a comment claiming the student was talking “happy about the ‘happy’ image of slaughtered Israelis” and that he was happy to hear the news that thousands of Jews in Israel had died.
“This is not a patient in a psychiatric hospital. This is a student at the Ivy League,” he tweeted.
The speaker asked the participants of the rally to remember “the joyful and strong images that came from the glorious October 7.” Philly Palestine Coalition
The Post could not confirm whether the person in the video was a student at UPenn.
A spokeswoman for the university declined to comment but referred to the president’s recent statement 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, captured on video and widely disseminated, which glorifies the brutality of Hamas terrorists, which celebrates and praises the slaughter and kidnapping of innocent people. , and that calls into question Israel’s right to exist.”
Magil said he was sickened, horrified and angry.
“I personally condemn these hateful – hateful – antisemitic acts and words, which are nothing but inhumane,” he said at last Friday’s meeting. “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.”
A UPenn spokeswoman declined to comment on the video.Shutterstock
His remarks came two days after more than two dozen members of Congress sent him a letter condemning the university’s alleged lack of immediate and firm condemnation of the Hamas attack.
On Monday, several UPenn employees received targeted antisemitic emails that threatened violence against members of the university’s Jewish community, including Penn Hillel and Lauder College House.
College public safety officials have found no credible threat and have increased security around campus.
The university notified the FBI of a potential hate crime and is investigating the threat.
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