A banned anti-Israel student group took credit Thursday for throwing red paint on the University of Pennsylvania’s Benjamin Franklin statue.
“Penn, your hands are red,” Up Against the Occupation, which goes by (u)PAO, posted on Instagram hours after the vandalism. “You are complicit in the Palestinian genocide.”
An “autonomous group” had vandalized the statue as a “visual reminder of the over 186,000 martyrs who have been murdered by the [Israel Occupation Forces] and the university’s complicity in this genocide,” continued the post, which included photos and a video of the vandalism.
Senior Noah Rubin, an orthodox Jew and former president of the Penn Israel Public Affairs Committee, demanded accountability. […]
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