YALE UNIVERSITY: Jewish female student journalist stabbed in the eye with flagpole by pro-Hamas/anti-Israel Muslim demonstrator

 Jewish Yale University student journalist reporting on an anti-Israeli protest at the Ivy League school Saturday night was stabbed in the eye with a pole holding up a Palestinian flag, while her Muslim assailant has gone unpunished.

NY Post (h/t Marvin W) Stop Antisemitism, a nonprofit watchdog group, has shared an image Tartak took of the demonstrator who jabbed her in the eye, asking the public to help identify him.

Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, was covering the protest — which saw hundreds of students camping on the campus in support of Palestinians — when she was suddenly surrounded by demonstrators. Tartak said she and a friend were singled out for wearing Hasidic Jewish attire as the crowd formed a blockade around them to interfere with their filming.

“There’s hundreds of people taunting me and waving the middle finger at me, and then this person waves a Palestinian flag in my face and jabs it in my eye,” Tartak told The Post. “When I tried to yell and go after him, the protesters got in a line and stopped me,” she added. Tartak said she tried to report the assault to campus police but they told her there was nothing they could do.

University president Peter Salovey echoed the sentiment in a statement Sunday about the protest. “I am aware of reports of egregious behavior, such as intimidation and harassment, pushing those in crowds, removal of the plaza flag, and other harmful acts,” Salovey said. 

Noah Rubin, a University of Pennsylvania student helping document the protest at Yale, bashed the university for going against its own policies by allowing the demonstrations to continue. According to the school’s guidelines, protesters are barred from blocking access to building entrances and are considered trespassers if they refuse to leave once instructed to do so.

“The university is not acting on its own rules, and it’s only emboldening these protesters,” Rubin said.