Pro-Israeli Students and Gaza Protesters Clash Verbally at Yale Encampment
Footage here posted by Sahar Tartak, a Jewish, pro-Israeli student at the university who considers accusations of genocide against Israel to be antisemitic, shows an interaction between himself and some of the protesters on campus, including one who repeatedly calls him 'scum.'
'After the students at Yale's encampment sat down, one encampment-goer shoves his camera in our face, but promises, 'don't worry, I don't want to touch that scum',' Tartak wrote on X.
In the footage, a student can be heard saying 'Why are you scum? Because you're supporting scum.'
According to the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition and Yale Daily News, demonstrators were opposing the Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's upcoming talk at Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale.
Ben-Gvir, a far-right Jewish supremacist known for his support of violent settlers in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, has repeatedly called for the severing of all humanitarian aid into Gaza, urged Israeli forces to shoot Palestinian women and children, and for Palestinians to be expelled from the enclave and replaced by Jewish Israelis.
Protesters started gathering at Beinecke Plaza at about 6 pm, Yale Daily News reported, and the crowd had grown to more than 200 shortly before 9 pm. Organizers later announced, just before 11:30 pm, that the encampment would disband. Credit: Sahar Tartak via Storyful
It's like an eye exam.
It's very impressive.
I have to.
You might need your eyes checked.
I'm not gonna lie.
Oh, don't worry, I'm not gonna I don't want to touch that scum.
You're Jewish?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'd love if that was the case, wouldn't you?
Why are we scum?
What is that?
Because you're supporting scum.
Would you mind just like backing away from them I was actually told you that?
I guess.
Are you guys.
Yeah, why are you taking a picture of her?
Why are you taking a picture of her?
Public space.
I do.
No No, no, I, I keep hearing why we're scum.
Keep telling us why we're scum.
You know why you scum then you're scum.
I don't I?
They're just like chill over here.
I get you I get you I get you.
Why are you thanking him?
He's calling us scum and up in our face.
You don't want that at your protest.
And he's not a Yale student or affiliate, so why Who said I was a young student?
Who said I was a I don't think we should be making assumptions.
No one here is gonna tell you any information about themselves.
Yeah.
It's in my lunch care.
You guys were doing, I'm standing.
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