New York police intervened after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the university’s main library Wednesday evening.

Arrests were underway late Wednesday as the NYPD moved in to clear about 100 pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University who took over Butler Library just days before final exams.

Columbia students reported feeling threatened when masked protesters stormed the campus library, chanted anti-Israel slogans, and mocked the Israeli hostage crisis.

The New York Police Department arrested 78 protesters in response to a Wednesday pro-Palestinian demonstration in Butler Library, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to Spectator Thursday morning. All of ...

Anti-Israel agitators took over part of the Butler Library at Columbia University in New York City on Wednesday, interrupting students studying for finals.

The campus is currently at the second level, requiring ID. Butler Library, where the protest took place, reopened Thursday, as students are studying for their final exams, Columbia's Acting ...

The protest at Butler Library began around 4 p.m. and was isolated to a reading room in the library, according to the university. About 60-100 protesters entered the building at that time ...

Second, Columbia and Barnard must apologize to every previously suspended journalist and student who did not break any rules ...

Students attempting to retrieve personal belongings from the library, protesters, journalists, and legal observers, struggled against Public Safety to be let into Butler.(Lara-Nour Walton ...

NYPD and Columbia University’s Public Safety team infringed upon the fundamental right to freedom of the press, restricting ...

Protesters are escorted out of Columbia University’s Butler Library after their arrest in New York City on May 7, 2025. Reporter Columbia University has once again found itself at the epicenter ...