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Sahar Tartak

Student

Yale University Jewish student journalist Sahar Tartak attracted national attention in April 2024 with an op-ed recounting her experience of being stabbed in the eye as she covered a pro-Hamas demonstration on campus. "They pointed their middle fingers at me," the "visibly Jewish" Tartak said of being surrounded by a pro-Hamas mob, "and yelled 'Free Palestine,' and the taunting continued until a six-foot-something male protester holding a Palestinian flag waved the flag in my face and then stabbed me with it in my left eye." She remarked as well that her experience reminded her of her mother, an Iranian Jew whose eyelid remains scarred from a childhood episode when antisemitic neighbors threw rocks at her. Tartak has since testified to the US Congress about her experiences and spoken out on multiple national news outlets.