Over the weekend, Yale University in the United States held student protests against the government’s policies regarding the conflict in the Gaza Strip. The local police report several cases of hooliganism, while an angry protester shoved a flagpole with a Palestinian flag in her eye.
On Saturday night, Jewish journalism student Sarah Tartak arrived at the scene to cover the protest, which at the time included about 500 students, but was unable to report after being stabbed in the eye with a flagpole by a masked man.
A young staff member of the Yale Free Press remembers the course of events. “As we approached the anti-Israel protest to document the event,” she wrote, “we were quickly pushed back by the organizers of the demonstration and the participants who lined up in front of us. No one else documenting this event was blocked in this way.”
The protesters surrounded Sarah in a tight circle until she couldn’t move. This also happened to a man, a Hasidic student, who accompanied him. “They were pushing us and shining flashlights in our eyes,” she reveals in the magazine.
“They pointed their middle finger at me and shouted ‘Freedom for Palestine’ and the taunting continued until a six-foot-tall protester waving a Palestinian flag poked it in my left eye,” Sarah writes.
It has already been reported that demonstrations in support of the Palestinians took place on several university campuses in the United States last weekend. More here.
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