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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

"Earlier today, a group of protesters occupied one of the main reading rooms in Butler library, refusing to leave, and another group breached the front door causing substantial chaos—all of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. The protest ...

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

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 ...