Conservative American outlets may have been too quick to churn out headlines claiming a young Jewish woman had been “stabbed in the eye” at a Yale protest.
The student, according to her own account in The Free Press, had a headache and felt pressure where a Palestinian flag had hit her eye, but was otherwise “okay”. Nonetheless, the student went to the hospital at the recommendation of an EMT, where she reflected on her mother’s experience of having rocks thrown at her while living in Iran for being Jewish.
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The whole affair is less evocative of the plight of Iranian Jews than it is of another recent Ivy League kerfuffle, in which multiple Columbia protesters were hospitalised following an alleged chemical attack. In reality, it was a foul prank involving a fart spray called “Liquid Ass”. Martyrs, all.
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SubscribeThe student was poked in the eye with a stick. The author does himself no credit by downplaying the incident or the circumstances in which it occurred. There is a clear effort underway to threaten and harass Jewish students in ways that would be unthinkable if any other group were targeted in the same way. This effort didn’t come from nowhere. Like a swollen abscess, it’s been building for years at these institutions behind a stubborn wall of administrative denial.