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Masked Pro-Palestine protesters take over Columbia University library
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May 7, 2025
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1:20Now PlayingDozens of masked anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library Wednesday — with the chaos injuring at least two school safety officers and sparking several arrests, officials said.
Around 30 demonstrators were taken into custody so far Wednesday evening hours after a large group of activists shoved past a security guard on the library’s front entrance, according to video of the rowdy mob.
Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, one declaring the library a “liberated zone” and another bearing the name of Bassel al-Araj, a Palestinian activist killed by Israel Defense Forces in a 2017 raid in the West Bank — though they misspelled his first name as “Basel.”
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