A Jewish student at Yale University says a protester jabbed her in the eye with a Palestinian flag during a rowdy anti-Israel protest on campus Saturday evening and got away with it.
A Jewish student journalist at Yale University says a protester wielding a Palestinian flag jabbed her in the eye during a rowdy anti-Israel protest on campus Saturday evening and got away with it.
Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, had been covering the protest, which had drawn hundreds of students in support of Palestinians, when she says she was surrounded by a mob of protesters.
Tartak said the protest had been slowly brewing for the week prior, with students setting up a tent encampment in the middle of campus and creating a memorial to a Palestinian terrorist, Walid Daqqa. The crowd had also created a mock F-16 covered in fake blood to protest the Israeli military.
This activity, Tartak said, culminated in hundreds of students gathering at the plaza, chanting slogans like: « There is one solution, intifada revolution. »
When Tartak went Saturday night to cover the protest with a friend, the crowd instantly singled them out because they were « identifiably Jewish, » she said.
« They made a human blockade in front of us and blockaded us whenever we tried to exercise our freedom of movement around the protest, » Tartak said.
At some point, she and her friend were separated. The protesters formed a circle around her, chanting incendiary slogans and taunting her.
« One of the students, whose face was covered in a keffiyeh, took a Palestinian flag that he was holding, waved it in my face and hit my left eye, » Tartak said.
