Ivy League student arrested for stealing Israeli flag, previously praised Hamas attacks against Israel

A female student at the University of Pennsylvania who said that she felt "empowered and happy" after Hamas terrorists carried out a deadly attack against Israel on October 7 has now been arrested for stealing an Israeli flag from campus.

Tara Tarawneh, who graduated in 2020 from King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, was reportedly arrested on November 4 for stealing an Israeli flag from a Campus Apartments house around the school campus, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Tarawneh was charged with theft and receiving stolen property stemming from the incident that took place on October 28, according to the New York Post.

It appears Tarawneh had previously made a name for herself as someone who had once penned a column condemning "settler colonialism" as a violent machine, but she appears unable to see the atrocities carried out by Hamas terrorists and other groups that wish to annihilate the Jewish state.

Congressman Ritchie Torres took to X after Tarawneh gave a hate-filled speech against Israel following Hamas' attack that resulted in at least 1,200 deaths, writing: "A student from UPenn is seen speaking fondly about the 'joyful' images of butchered Israelis from the 'glorious October 7th.'"

"She felt 'happy' upon hearing the news of dead Jews in Israel. In what appears to be a call for violence, she tells the crowd to 'hold that feeling in your hearts' and 'bring it to the streets.' This is not a patient at a psychiatric hospital. This is a student at an Ivy League."

The Daily Pennsylvanian previously published a piece by Tarawneh in September, entitled "Palestine Writes: Why Penn should protect its students from colonial backlash"

“For a land and a people who suffer from a history of colonialism, displacement and erasure, the festival is an extremely important site of cultural preservation," Tarawneh wrote. She proceeded to condemn "settler colonialism," claiming that it is a "violent machine which seeks to exterminate any semblance of Palestinian existence, including Palestinians' narrative of their own history."

University President Liz Magil admitted that there had been a rise of anti-Semitic rhetoric on campus, which included "swastikas and hateful graffiti."

She went on to say that there have been chants that seem to celebrate and "praise the slaughter and kidnapping of innocent people, and that question Israel’s very right to exist.”

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