Sahar Tartak, a Jewish Yale University student journalist, was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag while covering an anti-Israel protest on campus Saturday night.
The university’s guidelines prohibit protesters from blocking access to entrances
The Yale Free Press’s editor-in-chief eventually took to Twitter to share the heartbreaking news about the tragedy. She wrote, “After I was stabbed in my eye by a protestor at a Yale rally, organizers blockaded me from running after my assaulter. Instead of helping me find him swiftly, one organizer told me: ‘I want you to think about what do you really want to get out of this.’”
With hundreds of students camping on the Ivy League campus following fierce protests in favor of Palestinians, Tartak and her friend, dressed in Hasidic Jewish clothing, were blocked in, and their recording was also interrupted.
Tartak told the New York Post that hundreds of protestors were “taunting” and “waving the middle finger” at her until a person waving a Palestinian flag in her face stabbed it into her eye.
According to reports, the university’s guidelines prohibit protesters from blocking access to entrances, and they are considered trespassers if they refuse to leave when instructed.
Yale has stated that it will not tolerate violence on campus, and the police department is investigating the attack.
Tartak, on the other hand, highlighted the school’s lack of action in cracking down on the weekend protest, resulting in another incident in which protestors blocked building entrances.
Who is Sahar Tartak?
Sahar Tartak, a sophomore, has been at Yale University since September 2022 and is majoring in History, according to her LinkedIn profile. Sahar attended Great Neck North High School before starting at Yale.
She has been associated with the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. She has also worked as an English Second Language Tutor at Israel Connect for four years and counting. Some of her written essays have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Free Beacon, and American Battlefield Trust.
