A pro-Hamas protester stabbed a Jewish student journalist in the eye Saturday night during an anti-Israel protest at Yale University. The incident is the latest in a series of reports about antisemitic elements threatening and assaulting Jewish students on college campuses.

The individual who assaulted the Jewish student has not yet been identified. The incident has prompted criticism against the university’s leadership for not doing enough to address the rise of antisemitism on its campus since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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 demonstrators.

Tartak said she and a friend were signaled out for wearing Hasidic Jewish attire as the crowd formed a blockade around them to interfere with their filming.

“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 criticized the university for failing to stop the demonstration where participants blocked entrances to school buildings even though the school’s policies prohibit this behavior.

In January, the United States Department of Education launched a Title VI Shared Ancestry investigation into Yale. The probe is related to a panel held in November titled “Gaza under siege.” Two Jewish students stated that they were excluded from the event due to being Jewish.

The complaint alleges that “several Jewish students” were barred from entering the event even though some attendees left before the conclusion of the panel. The complaint specifically names two students — Sahar Tartak ’26 and Netanel Crispe ’25 — who penned an opinion column titled “Jewish Students Meet Hostility at Yale” in the Wall Street Journal the following day.

“Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, no educational program or activity that receives federal financial assistance may discriminate against students on the basis of shared ancestry or national origin,” Robert Eitel, DFI president and co-founder, wrote to the News. “It appears that such a program hosted by the university barred certain Yale students from attending simply because they were Jewish. We are pleased that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is looking into this matter and hope that the investigation will prevent this kind of occurrence from happening again.”

Yale released a statement claiming that “students and other community members of all backgrounds” were allowed to attend the event.

“There was strong interest in the panel held on Nov. 6, and the room reached capacity before it began,” the statement reads. “A few students were not aware that organizers had required pre-registration, and even some students who had pre-registered were unable to enter due to space constraints. As a result, a small number of people listened from the hallway; because the speakers wore microphones, the discussion was audible outside the room.”

Yale, along with other Ivy-League universities, has seen a rapid rise in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior after the war in Gaza started in October 2023. The problem has become widespread in the realm of academia as university administrations grapple with protecting Jewish students.

The assault on Tarak seems to indicate that pro-Hamas protesters might be escalating in their efforts to attack Israel while running cover for the terrorist group that slaughtered over 1,200 Israeli men, women, and children on October 7.