Video: Female Jewish Student Encircled By Pro-Palestine Activists & Blocked From Entering Yale University, Hit In The Eye With Flag

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A Jewish student journalist at Yale University says they were victims of anti-Semitism when a crowd of pro-Palestinian activities formed a human circle around them and would not let them leave nor move about the campus.

The victim, Sahar Tartak, said it peaked when one of the protesters hit her eyes with a Palestinian flag.

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According to Tartak who is the editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press and had been covering the protest, she was attacked alongside a friend when she came to cover the pro-Palestinian protest which has been going on on the campus.

The protests have been garnering strength in the past weeks, and have drawn hundreds of supporters, mostly students.

The activists had set up a tent encampment in the middle of campus and created a memorial to a Palestinian terrorist, Walid Daqqa. The crowd also sought to mock the Israeli military by creating a mock F-16 covered in fake blood, and chanting slogans like; “There is one solution, intifada revolution.” 

“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. “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,” she said. 

“He had anonymity because of the keffiyeh. The organizers encourage anonymity at these events because it creates immunity, so that students can physically assault people like me (Jews) and then get away with it,” she said.