Police Arrest Students At Yale University As Hundreds Stage Anti-Israel Protest

OAN’s James Myers
8:23am – Monday, April 22, 2024

Police clashed with students on Yale University’s Connecticut campus Monday morning and began arresting students who had been engaged in anti-Israel protests for several days.

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Video footage posted online showed police arriving on campus and blocking the entrance to the New Haven campus plaza, where an estimated 200 protesters had gathered.

The newspaper said police told the students they would be arrested if they did not continue their protest and leave. Yale Daily News.

Meanwhile, dozens of protesters were handcuffed and taken away on Yale University shuttle buses on charges of trespassing.

While the arrests were being made, protesters shouted at the Yale Police Department (YPD), “YPD, KKK, IDF, all the same,” and “Arab blood is not cheap, for the martyrs.” We will talk,” was heard shouting. ”

Authorities cleared the square and the student demonstrators’ encampment by around 8 a.m.

The latest campus purges come after a Jewish student was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag on Saturday night and protests at Yale University turned violent over the weekend.

Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, was covering a protest when he was suddenly swarmed by protesters.

“While hundreds of people were laughing at me and waving their middle fingers at me, this person waved a Palestinian flag in my face and stabbed me in the eye,” Tartaq said. new york post.

“When I started shouting and running after them, protesters lined up and stopped me.”

Following the brutal incident, Yale University President Peter Salovey responded by emailing all students Sunday night as protests continued, saying the university would “take disciplinary action in accordance with policy.”

“Many of the students participating in the protests, including those who are counter-protesting, are acting peacefully. “We are aware of reports of egregious behavior, including other harmful acts,” he wrote.

“Yale University does not tolerate conduct that includes language that threatens, harasses, or threatens members of the university’s Jewish, Muslim, or other communities.

“The Yale Police Department investigates each report and will take action as necessary, including inquiries into student discipline.”