Fox News’s Martha MacCallum interviewed a Jewish student at Yale who recently wrote about being stabbed in the eye by a Palestinian flag during a pro-Palestinian protest on her campus.
MacCallum started the segment by showing video from protests at Yale over the weekend and reported that the anti-Israel protests turned violent, injuring their next guest.
“She wrote a column on this, saying — quote — ‘I was stabbed in the eye at Yale. The school has allowed anti-Israel students to run roughshod over their most basic policies. Yesterday,’ she writes, ‘I paid the price for their inaction,’” MacCallum added before introducing Yale student Sahar Tartak.
“Your piece is very moving on this morning in The Free Press. Tell me a little bit about what was going on when you were there, what did you see all around you, and then what happened?” MacCallum asked.
“So, over the past week or so at Yale, anti-Semitic student protesters have taken over a central plaza on our campus, setting up a tent encampment, among other things, displaying pictures to honor terrorists. This led to multiple nights of overnight encampments in the central plaza and protests with hundreds of people,” Tartak replied, adding:
I think it was 500 when I came on Saturday night. And as soon as I was identified with my friend, who wears a black hat, as visibly Orthodox Jewish students, I was immediately blockaded by protest organizers. And everywhere I walked, there was a line of protest organizers standing in front of me linking arms, so that I could not walk forward.
And the rest of the students at the rally noticed this, the other 500 students at this violent rally. And they saw me. And so they began to taunt me as well, because they recognized that I was there. I was something that they view as an enemy.
And, finally, the taunting continued and escalated. And I just there to record them. And the taunting escalated, until somebody waved a Palestinian flag in my face and then jabbed me in my left eye. And, from there, when I tried to run after him, the human blockade of protest organizers continued to stand in front of me to stop me from catching my assailant.
And so I went to the hospital.
“It’s extraordinary. It’s stunning,” MacCallum replied before noting that the protests took place near a World War II memorial honoring soldiers who died for democracy and basic freedoms. MacCallum went on to ask Tartak about some of the slogans and symbols present at the anti-Israel protests, including the watermelon symbol.
“So we have seen the watermelon all over campus. It’s supposed to be a symbol, basically, against the Jewish people and in favor — like all the other symbols that these students are using, in favor of violent, terroristic acts against Jews in the state of Israel as a form of liberation,” Tartak replied, adding:
I mean, these students have chanted, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,” which is a direct reference to uprisings that included suicide bombs in Israel and killed civilians.
After October 7, they absolutely celebrated and, of course, justified these events en masse. Yes, I know those students. I — sorry. I just recognized one of them from class.
Like, this is really — it’s really painful to realize that your peers have joined the Nazi Party.
“It’s stunning and very personal for you. It is — I feel for you, and we’re glad that your eye is OK. I know that your mother had her eye injured in Iran in a not-dissimilar situation,” MacCallum said as she wrapped the interview and thanked Tartak for her time.
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