Yale alumni condemn student newspaper’s claim that Hamas atrocities lack evidence.
Yale Alumni Denounce School Newspaper for Controversial Editor’s Note
Two Yale alumni and former leaders at the Yale Daily News have spoken out against the school newspaper for a recent editor’s note that downplayed reports of Hamas beheading and raping women. The note, which sparked outrage, was added to an op-ed questioning the classification of a pro-Palestinian group as a hate group.
The op-ed, written by sophomore student Sahar Tartak, was published on Oct. 12. However, 13 days later, the campus newspaper editors inserted a note stating that the claims of Hamas raping women and beheading men were “unsubstantiated.”
Tartak, in an op-ed for the Washington Free Beacon, expressed her frustration with the editor-in-chief, Anika Arora Seth, for not informing her about the update. Seth claimed that there were doubts surrounding the rape and beheading allegations at the time of publication.
Tartak accused the Yale Daily News of becoming a platform for Holocaust denial, where acts of violence against Jews are simply denied without justification.
In response to the controversy, Chris Michel and Elyssa Friedland, former editor-in-chief and managing editor of the Yale Daily News, penned a letter expressing their disappointment with the decision to add the editor’s note. They highlighted that the Israeli government had provided substantial evidence, including video footage, of Hamas’s attacks.
“It is unbelievable that the editorial board would dismiss claims of rape during the Hamas attack as ‘unsubstantiated’ when there is ample evidence from reputable news sources,” they wrote. “The hypocrisy is astounding, as the same generation of students who advocate for believing women suddenly choose to ignore the evidence when the victims are Israeli. We urge the editorial board to rectify this mistake promptly.”
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