At Yale, the usual rabid antisemitic student mob was out in force, expressing its solidarity with the 108 Columbia students who have just been arrested for their refusal to disperse from their encampment on campus. The Yale students set up tents at Beineke Plaza in the middle of the campus, screaming their usual imprecations against Israel: “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” and “No to Genocide.” Attempting to film the spectacle was Sahar Tartak, a Jewish student, but as she got closer to the encampment, she and a companion were each surrounded by five members of the pro-Hamas mob, who blocked their way and prevented them from filming. And the campus police did nothing. More on this latest example of intimidation and violence, that could have ended with Tartak losing her eye — a flagpole was thrust into her face, but just missed the eye — can be found here: “Jewish Yale student jabbed in eye with flag pole by anti-Israel protesters – exclusive,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post,
A Jewish Yale University student was jabbed in [near] the eye with a flag pole by an anti-Israel protester on Saturday night, Sophomore Sahar Tartak told The Jerusalem Post.
Tartak, a history student and editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, had attempted to film the pro-Palestinian protest encampment that had been set up on the campus.
The visibly religious Jewish student and her friend were immediately met with a wall of five activists each, who did not allow them to pass.
“One of them takes their Palestinian flag and waves it in my face and then jabs it in the face,” said Tartak.
Tartak reported the assault to campus police, but she is unaware of any action taken besides calling an ambulance for her. The student went to the hospital, but was discharged and will not suffer permanent damage. Mentally, however, Tartak said that she was in an “awful” state.
Why did the campus police not seek to arrest the student who hit her in the face with a flagpole? Will the university now investigate the matter, and determine who that student was, so that he, or she, can be subject to appropriate discipline, including expulsion from Yale?
Returning to campus has become a daunting prospect, as according to her “All these students know who I am.”
Sahar Tartak is now fearful of returning to the Yale campus, since these pro-Hamas demonstrators now know who she is and may seek her out for violent retribution for reporting the flagpole attack to the police, especially if the perpetrator is indeed discovered and prosecuted.
The protesters had also pushed Tartak and her friend repeatedly, she said. The student also noted that she had seen signs of Walid Daqqah, the recently-deceased terrorist who was part of a cell that kidnapped, tortured and murdered IDF soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
These protesters are not expressing solidarity with ordinary Gazans who have unavoidably been caught in the middle of the IDF-Hamas war. They are instead expressing support for the worst terrorist murderers, such as Walid Daqqah, who was part of a three-man team that picked up a hitchhiking Israeli soldier, and proceeded to torture, eviscerate, and murder that young soldier, Moshe Tamam.
Those same protesters, in blocking the way, so that Tartak and her friend could not get close to their encampment, and then repeatedly shoving them to prevent them from moving forward, could be charged with the crime of false imprisonment. Will either the Yale police, or the New Haven police, do their job, or are the protestors to be given a pass, lest arresting them leads to even more trouble on campus? Have university campuses become No-Go areas, where Muslims and their sympathizers now rule the roost?
Tartak said that she told officers that they should disband the encampment, but they responded that they needed authorization. Tartak noted that the police were outnumbered, with only 7 officers to police a thousand activists.
Who was it who decided to send only seven officers to police a crowd of 1000? And were these campus police, or regular police? Where were Yale’s administrators during all this? Perhaps they were hiding in their offices, hoping those at the encampment would eventually disperse of their own volition, while they remained unwilling to take action even against those who violently assaulted Sahar Tartak?
Yalies for Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine Connecticut said on social media that they had succeeded on Saturday because no arrests had been made during their protests, which began on Friday in response to the attempts to remove a similar encampment at Columbia University….
So the student protestors, and some non-students belonging to the Connecticut chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, consider that they have emerged victorious because, in their show of strength, they overawed the tiny police presence, whose officers did not dare to arrest any of them. That is exactly why the police should have been reinforced with another hundred officers in order to arrest those violating campus rules with their unauthorized encampents, in order to disabuse the protesters of the sense that they are above the law and can intimidate anyone on campus who opposes them — such as Sahar Tartak.
The student brownshirts, one-thousand strong, set up an illegal encampment in the middle of the Yale campus, at Beinecke Plaza, where they were able to shout — their faces contorted by hate — their anti-Israel and pro-Hamas slogans.
And so far, there has been no statement from Yale’s President about this incident, and apparently no investigation is being undertaken either by the Yale police or the New Haven police. Nor have any of the protestors been forcibly dispersed, or their tents taken down. Most of the protesters still have not left their encampment. They believe they have won just by remaining in place. Do the administrators at Yale want these violent protesters to prevail, or will they stop this dangerous and hate-filled demonstration now?
SC says
Pull every jewish student and every jewish funding source from every college failing to protect jewish students. Withdrawing funding is the only thing they understand. A nice lawsuit to claw back all student costs of every student leaving would be a great touch. That could be up to 4 years per student then another to pull their accreditation.
rick says
If these “protestors” could get their hands on an AK-47 or better an RPG they would kill hundreds of people they think are Jews. This is the mindset of the Oct 7th Palestinians.
From The Other Side of Town. says
No, do not become as they are. Self-defense, protection of the law against these abusers, non-institutionalization of hatred, etc. But do not add to the beastliness by becoming more of the same. Please.
carpediadem says
He isn’t. he’s describing these terror supporters, these so-called “protesters”.
Raymond Bullock says
The European style of – 1) occupying the space, 2) claiming the space, and then 3) establishing Sharia Law in that space is the modus operand of Islam. They are now implementing it on the Yale campus in broad daylight right before our eyes. If Yale does nothing it is seen as approval. The next step will rachet up until the city of New Haven will become a Sharia Law zone. It is like a disease. Leave it alone and it spreads rapidly. Islam is militant, will not back down and goes from one level of terror to the next with until it has total control. Just look at Africa, India, Indonesia and Europe. They call this “self-defense”.
Wellington says
College education in America has become a cruel joke. It is no longer a matter of education but rather indoctrination, accompanied of course by a loss of both liberty and civility. Leading the way in this modern debacle is the Ivy League, once renowned but now worthy of nothing but contempt. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, et al. have become a laughing stock to all those still possessed of reason, common sense and a love of liberty and the pursuit of truth.
Mark Minegar says
Kudos Wellington
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious action of violence against this Jewish Yale University student may serve as an example of the malicious hate for the Jewish people because of the insidious stealth jihadist infiltration of many American institutions of “higher education ” Along with those other dangerous people who make up the leftist/Red/Green alliance.
Much funding towards that hideous anti-Jewish and anti-Israel brainwashing of impressionable university and college youth come , without doubt from oil rich Islamic countries as Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Reziac says
I’m wondering how this was not assault and battery, or maybe even attempted murder. It was obviously intentional, with intent to maim or kill.
Walter Sieruk says
That malice-filled despicable violent criminal behavior towards this Jewish Yale University student is a terrible reminder of the wisdom spoken by the hero in the 1979 movie entitled TIME AFTER TIME,
In which the hero said “The first man ti raise his fist is the man who has run out of ideas.”
Therefore, it’s very obvious those those hooligans ,as that pro- Hamas ,anti- Israel thug in that article , of the Red /Green alliance must be the one’s who have “run out of ideas.”
By the way , hooligans and thugs they truly are because they have proven it by their horrendous behavior. .
carpediadem says
The “idea” is to kill Jews. Their fist is the whole point of the exercise.
Walter Sieruk says
Evil is always looking for an excuse.
Rick Gordon says
As the old saying goes –
“The inmates have taken over the asylum “
It’s absent management (administration) – who are obviously overpaid and incompetent.
Walter Sieruk says
At Yale as well as other universities across the United States , all those spiteful vicious anti- Jewish “students” need t and should heed the wisdom spoken by the former US President, William Howard Taft, who in a speech rightly declared ” Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Namer says
Time to sue the school out of existence. If they d not even try to protect the Jewish students or arrest the person who tried to blind this young woman then they are culpable for the crime.
OLD GUY says
What is amazing to me is how much violence and hate these people are projecting on behalf of something they know little about. It appears they just want to be apart of something, so why not become active in your church or join a service clan that helps people rather than chanting hate slogans and hurting someone. Grow UP.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Yes, I agree Many of these are people who just want to belong to something, and they’ve turned this conflict into a topsy-turvical morality tale, with Israel (Bad) and the Palestinians (Good). I doubt if they know anything about the 3,500 year history of the Jews in the Land of Israel, know anything about when the Zionist pioneers first showed up to buy land from Arab owners– they always paid exorbitant prices for land in Mandatory Palestine, I doubt that they have even read the Mandate for Palestine, especially Articles 4 and 6, the Treaty of San Remo, the three previous wars Israel has had to fight for its survival, in 1948, 1967, and 1973, as well as the lesser campaigns the IDF has been forced to fight against the PLO, Hamas, PIJ, PFLP, and Hezbollah, I doubt that they know that the Arabs already have 22 states, encompassing 14 million square miles, that together are 632 times the size of little Israel, I doubt that they know the significance of UN Security Council Resolution 242, doubt that they have any idea when, and why, the “Palestinian people” were invented. And so. Empty heads, faces contorted by mindless blind hate. . What torrents of ignorance! What flash floods of hate!
somehistory says
I read an article yesterday regarding a photograph taken of a city in Israel, with an account of some saying it was taken of “palestine/gaza” before the Jews were ‘given a state’ in 48, as if the so-called ‘palestinians’ had been really successful before the Jews arrived.
The article went on to the real facts, finding evidence of just which city in Israel…not “palestine or Gaza”…was photographed and that some Jews were living in that city before 48, but also evidence to prove the photo was from 53.
Lots of lies being thrown around for public consumption. Honest people need to remember to sift through for the Truth and not swallow everything being hurled at us.
James Lincoln says
Mr. Fitzgerald,
Most of these useful idiots could not even find Israel on a map.
And if you asked any one of them a question, they’ll direct you to their “media person”.
They know nothing.
Nothing.