Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University have taken over Butler Library on Wednesday just days before final exams.

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 ...

Around 100 pro-Palestinian protesters held an “Emergency Rally” in the Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room in Butler Library on May 7, hanging a banner that read “Liberated Zone,” which resembled a banner ...

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.

Pro-Palestinian protesters entered Butler Library on Columbia University’s campus bringing NYPD officers to the area to monitor the situation, according to campus and city officials.

NYPD officers took dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators into custody at Columbia University's Butler Library on Wednesday evening.

Protests at Columbia University resulted in the NYPD taking dozens of people into custody Wednesday at Butler Library on campus.

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) ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is calling the actions of demonstrators staging a protest in Columbia University’s Butler Library Wednesday afternoon “unacceptable.” “I want to say to ...

A pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University by CUAD has taken over a room in Butler Library as students study for final exams.

Tensions flared at Columbia University when masked protesters stormed the campus’s main library, reigniting anti-Israel demonstrations and sparking confrontations with students and security.