A Jewish Yale student journalist reporting on an anti-Israeli protest at the Ivy League university Saturday night was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag – with her assailant going unpunished.
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 protesters.
“There’s hundreds of people taunting me and waving the middle finger at me, and then this person waves a Palestinian flag in my face and jabs it in my eye,” Tartak told The Post.
“When I tried to yell and go after him, the protesters got in a line and stopped me,” she added.
Tartak, who was shopping for an eyepatch when speaking with The Post, said she tried to report the assault to campus police, but they told her there was nothing they could do.
Instead, she just got an ambulance ride to the hospital to get her eye checked out.
Tartak also slammed the university for not cracking down on Saturday’s protest, the latest incident at Yale, where demonstrators have blocked entrances to school buildings as they condemn the war in the Gaza Strip.
Stop Antisemitism, a nonprofit watchdog group, has shared an image Tartak took of the demonstrator who jabbed her in the eye, asking the public to help identify him.
Yale did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Noah Rubin, a University of Pennsylvania student helping document the protest at Yale, also bashed the university for going against its own policies by allowing the demonstrations to continue.
According to the school’s guidelines, protesters are barred from blocking access to building entrances and are considered trespassers if they refuse to leave once instructed.
“The university is not acting on its own rules and it’s only emboldening these protesters,” Rubin said.
Along with Saturday’s violence, students are also holding a hunger strike on campus to push Yale to divest from weapons manufacturers affiliated with Israel, a strike that has been going on for more than six days.
The hunger strike saw drag performer Tifa Wine join students on Friday as she slammed the university for its alleged support of Israel — but failing to mention Hamas’ record as an Islamic fundamentalist organization that opposes rights for LGBTQ people..
The movement in Yale has grown in solidarity with a similar protest at Columbia University in New York City.