Police clad in riot gear swarmed Yale University’s Connecticut campus early Monday and started arresting students who had been staging an anti-Israel protest encampment there for several days.
Footage posted online showed cops arriving at the Ivy League school and blocking off entrances to a plaza at the New Haven campus, where roughly 200 protesters had been gathered.
The Yale Daily News reported that cops started warning protesters they risked being arrested if they didn’t clear out.
Scores of protesters were cuffed for trespassing and hauled away on Yale University shuttle buses.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many had been nabbed.
As police descended on the campus, a group of defiant students locked arms around a flagpole and sang “We shall not be moved”—as officers could be seen checking the dozens of tents erected in the plaza, according to a video posted on X.
While the arrests were underway, others could be heard taunting the Yale Police Department (YPD), “YPD or KKK, IDF they’re all the same” and chanting, “Arab blood is not cheap, for the martyrs we will speak.”
Cops had cleared the plaza and encampment of student protesters by about 8 a.m.
It comes after protests at Yale turned violent over the weekend when a Jewish student journalist reporting on an encampment, which was erected Friday, was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag Saturday night.
Sahar Tartak, the Yale Free Press editor-in-chief, was covering the protest when demonstrators suddenly surrounded her.
“There are 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.”
Yale president Peter Salovey sent students an email late Sunday warning that the school “will pursue disciplinary actions according to its policies” amid the ongoing demonstrations.
