A student at the University of Pennsylvania was caught tearing down Hamas kidnapping posters on campus, and when confronted, he tore the poster into pieces.
The unnamed woman was initially coy about her actions, telling the person who posted the flyer that she just wanted to look at it.
She said quietly that it was “propaganda.”
The man filming asked her why she felt that way, pointing out that the victim in the poster was a Thai worker who was snatched by the terrorists on October 7. He asked for the poster back, and she looked him in the eye and tore it up. then walk away.
The confrontation is playing out on campuses across the country, with the eight Ivy League universities in particular being wracked by unrest.
A UPenn student was caught on camera removing a poster calling for the release of a Thai man kidnapped by Hamas. She said the poster was “propaganda.”
You see the student tearing the poster into pieces
According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic incidents in the US increased by almost 400 percent in the days following the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
At Yale, a student journalist who wrote an opinion piece about the October 7 attacks was shocked to discover that the editors had deleted parts of her text.
“Editor’s note, correction, October 25: This column has been edited to remove unsubstantiated claims that Hamas has raped women and beheaded men,” they wrote.
Body camera footage, filmed by the Hamas terrorists themselves and taken from their bodies, shows them beheading a man.
NBC News, which showed the footage, reported on October 27 that a group of Hamas terrorists are arguing over who gets to cut off the head of a Thai man who was murdered while working in Israel. One of the attackers then struggles to cut off his head with a hoe.
NBC also reported that there was evidence of rape.
Images taken by Israeli aid workers show the corpse of a young woman naked from the waist down.
Israeli officials said they had also found evidence that some women who were raped and murdered had their legs broken.
Sophomore Sahar Tartak, whose mother emigrated from Iran, said she was shocked by the work of the editors.
“I’m still gathering my thoughts on the YDN’s blatant correction,” Tartak wrote on Monday.
She reposted a comment from Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Yale, who asked, “Are the hostage takings, the murder of children in their beds, the burning of people alive, and the parading of naked captured women in the streets also ‘baseless’?”
Tartak’s article condemned the Yale student group Yalies4Palestine, which on October 9 blamed Israel for the attack.
Sophomore Sahar Tartak wrote the Yale News article, which was subsequently censored
“Yalies4Palestine stands in solidarity with Palestinian resistance against violent settler colonial oppression,” they said.
“We mourn the tragic loss of civilian lives, and for this we hold the Zionist regime responsible.”
Cornell, in upstate New York, is in particular turmoil.
On Sunday evening, threats were posted online to shoot Jewish students in the 104 West building, where their kosher dining hall is located.
Other posts encouraged others to harm Jews, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun.
New York State Police have increased security on Cornell’s campus following the threats.
On Monday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called those who made threats against Jewish students at Cornell “terrorists,” warning that anyone who made threats “will not be given sanctuary.”
A Cornell professor who said he was “energized” and “excited” by the Hamas attack is on leave for the remainder of the semester.
And in Columbia, a swastika was found defaced with graffiti in a bathroom in the International Affairs Building on Friday.
On October 18, Minouche Shafik, Columbia’s president, wrote a letter to all students condemning the wave of hate across campus.
“Unfortunately, some are using this moment to spread anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, bigotry against Palestinians and Israelis, and various other forms of hatred,” Shafik wrote.
“Especially at a time of pain and anger, we must avoid language that defames, threatens or stereotypes entire groups of people.”
Harvard’s president has had to repeatedly try to distance himself from student groups that blamed Israel for the terror attack.
On Monday, journalist Yashar Ali shared a clip of a young man, his face covered by a mask, hurling anti-Semitic abuse at a person in Harvard Square, in downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The young man was filmed shouting how much he loved Hamas
He told an angry woman that he thought Israelis should “all be exterminated.” He was not on campus and it was unclear whether he was a Harvard student
“I love Hamas,” he shouted. ‘I think Hamas should scare Israel.
“I think they’re all dirty, dirty animals and they all deserve to die.”
He added: ‘I think they should all be exterminated, one by one. And their children, their mothers, their children, everyone.”
The incident did not take place on campus and it is not known if the man was a student.