A Jewish Yale student who allegedly had a pro-Hamas protester “jab” her in the eye said she was “immediately blockaded” when attempting to record the event.
Editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press Sahar Tartak claimed in an early Sunday morning piece about the purported attack on X that she was trying to “document” the protest occurring on the campus of the Ivy League university. Tartak reported to guest co-host Martha MacCallum on “America’s Newsroom” that as soon as she was identified, the demonstrators “immediately blockedaded” her.
“As soon as I was identified with my friend, who wears a black cap, as a visibly orthodox Jewish student, I was immediately blockaded by protest organizers and everywhere I walked there was a line of protest organizers standing in front of me linking arms so that I could not walk forward,” Tartak told MacCallum.
“This was noted by the other kids at the demonstration. After spotting me at this violent demonstration, the other 500 students started to tease me as they understood that I was someone they considered an enemy.
“I was just there to document them, and the taunting continued and escalated,” Tartak said. The jeers got more intense until someone hoisted a Palestinian flag in my direction and then stabbed me in the left eye. I rushed to the hospital after trying to run after him but was unable to catch my attacker because of the human barricade of protestors standing in front of me.
Monday, after many intersections surrounding the Ivy League school were blocked, at least 40 protestors were taken into custody for trespassing.
“There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” Tartak stated, alluding directly to uprisings in Israel that featured suicide bombers that killed people. “After October 7th, they utterly rejoiced and, of course, collectively rationalized these actions. I know those kids; in fact, I just recognized one from class. Realizing that your friends have joined the Nazi party hurts so much.
Since the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, there have been several pro-Palestinian rallies at Ivy League universities.