Moment cops storm Yale's Palestine encampment and arrest 47 - as shocking video shows Jewish student being stopped from entering campus in haunting echo of Nazi picture

Cops have stormed the Yale University square where hundreds of defiant pro-Palestine students have been camping out for the past several nights, in an echo of scenes unfolding at Ivy Leagues across the country. 

New Haven Police told DailyMail.com on Monday morning they had arrested 47 people at Beinecke Plaza and charged them with criminal trespass.  

It comes after more than 100 were arrested at Columbia's campus including the daughter of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar. 

In one shocking video, protesters are shown linking arms to block the path of two Jewish students in scenes commentators have compared to a 1938 image of Nazis preventing Jewish students from entering the University of Vienna in Austria. 

Sophomore Sahar Tartak, who was allegedly stabbed in the eye by a Palestinian flag-bearer, identified herself as one of the Jewish students in the video, alongside her friend who was wearing traditional Hasidic attire. 

Students have been protesting in Yale's Beinecke Plaza since Friday. The demonstrations came in response to an attempt to remove an encampment from the grounds of Columbia University

In one shocking video, protesters are shown linking arms to block the path of a Jewish student in scenes commentators have compared to a 1938 image of Nazis preventing Jewish students from entering the University of Vienna in Austria

The sophomore claimed in subsequent posts that other students formed a 'human blockade' around her

Cops have stormed the Yale University square where hundreds of defiant pro-Palestine students have been camping out for the past several nights

Police were met with chants of 'we shall not be moved' as the students formed a circle and appeared to block the surrounding roads (pictured) 

Sahar Tartak, a sophomore and editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, recalled the disturbing events which led to the alleged assault at Beinecke Plaza on campus Saturday night

Tartak, who was wearing a Star of David necklace and conservative dress, said they were targeted for being 'visibly Jewish', while her alleged assailant hid his face with a keffiyeh - a monochrome scarf symbolizing Palestinian patriotism. 

'He had anonymity because of the keffiyeh, and organizers encourage anonymity at these events because it creates immunity so that students can physically assault people like me and then get away with it,' she told Fox News. 

Tartak said around 500 students were at the demonstration in what they called 'Gaza Plaza' on Saturday night, calling for 'complete liberation' of Palestine. 

The Ivy League student said the attack came as students created a 'human blockade' around her while chanting 'anti-Jewish' slogans as she entered their demonstration.

'As they saw me they noticed that I was videotaping and that I was being blockaded by their co-ideologues,' Tartak told Fox News. 

'In addition to the really aggressive human blockade, they also began to harass and mock and taunt me. They waved their hands and middle finger in my camera and my face and they yelled at me. '

Around 100 remained in tents overnight, and at least 47 have been detained by cops so far. Some have been charged with trespassing - a Class A misdemeanor.

Officers were seen walking between tents on Monday morning warning students they had 'a few minutes to clear the area' or face arrest. 

But the officials were met with chants of 'we shall not be moved' as the students formed a circle and appeared to block the surrounding roads. 

Footage from the scene showed around 30 protesters being taken away in a police van as the remaining demonstrators cheered and applauded. The police vehicle bounced as it drove away from the force of students jumping  around inside. 

Jewish Columbia professor Shai Davidai (pictured) has been blocked from campus after he created a pro-Israel demonstration to counter the student-led Gaza encampment

Columbia university has cancelled all in-person classes on Monday amid escalating anti-Israel protests that have sparked fear in Jewish students 

Video from last week shows pro-Palestine and pro-Israel demonstrators clashing outside of the school as one woman screams, 'We are Hamas!'

Meanwhile in New York's Upper West Side, Columbia Business School Assistant Professor Shai Davidai, who is Jewish, staged what he called a 'peaceful sit in' on Monday morning to counter the pro-Gaza camp. 

Footage posted online shows him facing off with protesters while saying that his alumnus ID card had been deactivated amid the furore.

Shortly before midday, NYPD leaders had held a press briefing outside the university campus to address growing tensions. Protesters started to gather outside soon after the briefing, bringing parts of Broadway to a standstill. 

Police chiefs said they had shut down the encampment and made the arrests last week after a request by the university to deal with ‘trespassers’.

The police chiefs added that they have not received further requests to enter the campus, where some pro-Palestine activists remained on Monday.

Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said ‘the only NYPD assistance that they have currently asked for is for us to patrol the outside, the outer perimeter of the school.’

Daughtry added: ‘We have received reports that Israeli students walking on campus had their flags taken away from them, snatched out of their hands.

‘We also received reports that the Israeli students, there were some hateful things that were said towards them and they want to know if that was a crime or not.’

There have not been reports of ‘physical harm’ inflicted against students, police said.

Tartak provided a photo of her accused attacker while adding that his keffiyeh - a monochrome patterned scarf which is a symbol of Palestinian identity - had concealed his identity

Sahar Tartak, a sophomore at Yale University, accused another student of poking her in the eye with a Palestinian flag during Saturday night's protests

Students at Emerson College supporting Palestine sleep in tents in an encampment they set up in an alley off of Boylston street in Boston, Massachusetts on April 22, 2024

Students at Emerson College supporting Palestine sleep in tents in an encampment they set up in an alley off of Boylston street in Boston, Massachusetts on April 22, 2024

She alleged she was singled out for wearing attire associated with the Hasidic Jewish sect

Tartak further asserted that protestors stepped in front of her to prevent her from confronting her assailant

The Yale student body has been protesting for months to pressure the university into divesting its endowment from weapons manufacturers in the Middle East

The Yale student body has been protesting for months to pressure the university into divesting its endowment from weapons manufacturers amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

These efforts have only ramped up over the past few weeks amid the war in Gaza that has seen more than 30,000 Palestinian civilians killed.

On Sunday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates issued a statement.

'While every American has the right to peaceful protect, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly Antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous – they have absolutely no place on any college campus, or anywhere in the United States of America,' he said.

'And echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable. We condemn these statements in the strongest terms.'

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