Results for: Pro-Hamas Protest

Senator Ted Cruz is demanding answers from the National Park Service (NPS) after a pro-Hamas protest in Washington D.C. turned violent, with protesters vandalizing monuments and burning an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Cruz criticizes NPS for failing to adequately deploy officers and coordinate with other agencies, leaving them vastly outnumbered by the protesters. He is seeking information about NPS’s intelligence gathering, preparations, and coordination efforts before the protest.

A Jewish student at Yale University alleges she was assaulted and obstructed while attempting to document a pro-Hamas protest on campus. Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, claims she was identified as a Jewish student and surrounded by protesters who prevented her from moving or recording the event. She further alleges that she was jabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag and that her assailant was shielded from her by protest organizers. Tartak emphasizes that the protesters chanted slogans supporting violence and celebrated the recent terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel.