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UPenn’s Jewish students still subjected to ‘anger and aggression,’ protesters chanting ‘we are Hamas’

Students Eyal Yakoby and Jordan Davis this week filed a lawsuit claiming Penn broke federal civil rights law and selectively enforces its rules to “avoid protecting Jewish students from hatred and harassment.”

Yakoby, 21, claimed to The Post there are still “professors and students” at the university who he says are “openly antisemitic.”

“It’s madness — they’re still coming to class and employed by Penn,” he said. “We had one student who was back in class last Monday while facing [criminal] charges.

“I think it’s absolutely despicable and a failure of the university.

“I’m calling for anyone who violates school policies to be held accountable just like they would anything else.”

President Liz Magill told a congressional hearing Tuesday the university has formed an antisemitism task force, but her job hangs in the balance after she refused to say at the hearing calling for genocide against Jewish people violated the school’s code of conduct.

Tara Tarawneh, a 20-year-old college junior was still attending class this week, according to sources, despite praising terror group Hamas for its “glorious Oct. 7” terror attack on Israel which left 1,200 dead and over 200 more Israelis taken hostage.

She was also arrested for allegedly stealing an Israeli flag from the front of a Campus Apartments house near the Ivy League school.

Tarawneh has since been charged with theft and receiving stolen property, according to court documents viewed by The Post.

She did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Post, while her attorney Grace Harris said she was “not interested in talking” and also declined to speak. UPenn also did not return calls or emails Friday.

Tarawneh, a 2020 graduate of King’s Academy in Madaba, Jordan — has been open in her views, with video of her addressing a pro-Palestinian crowd going viral.

“I remember feelings so empowered and happy, so confident that victory was near and so tangible,” she told a crowd about the monstrous Oct. 7 attack, as reported by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s independent student-run media organization.

“I want all of you to hold that feeling in your hearts. Never let go of it.”

“I remember feelings so empowered and happy, so confident that victory was near and so tangible,” she told a crowd about the monstrous Oct. 7 attack, as reported by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s independent student-run media organization.

On Friday, bioengineering student Liam Pharr, 21, said he believes terrorism has taken root at the Ivy League college after witnessing students chanting, “We are Hamas” — designated a terrorist organization by the US, EU, UK and many others — on UPenn grounds.

“I’m not Jewish but there is absolutely antisemitism on campus,” Pharr told The Post. “A couple of weeks ago, there was a group on campus who joined hands and chanted, ‘We are Hamas.’ I was in the library and I heard it.

“It’s crazy the kind of s–t people can say on campus and get away with it. A terrorist organization has infiltrated a place where the next generation is getting the best education they possibly can,” he continued.

“I’ve seen social media posts circulating of Jewish students holding an Israel flag in peaceful protest, with the caption ‘remember their faces, they’ll be on the wrong side of history’.”

Meanwhile, the campus has seen shocking incidents including graffiti calling for “intifada” meaning “uprising,” “Avenge Gaza” and, sickeningly, “The Jews R Nazis” scrawled on a building next to a Jewish fraternity.

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