A pro-Hamas protester stabbed a Jewish student journalist in the eye Saturday night during an anti-Israel protest at Yale University. The incident is the latest in a series of reports about antisemitic elements threatening and assaulting Jewish students on college campuses.
The individual who assaulted the Jewish student has not yet been identified. The incident has prompted criticism against the university’s leadership for not doing enough to address the rise of antisemitism on its campus since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Sahar Tartak, the editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, was covering the protest – which saw hundreds of students camping at the campus in support of Palestinians – when she was suddenly surrounded by demonstrators.
Tartak said she and a friend were signaled out for wearing Hasidic Jewish attire as the crowd formed a…
