Dozens of Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm Columbia University—What To Know

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested after occupying part of Columbia University’s main library in New York on Wednesday.

Videos shared on social media show a long line of New York Police Department officers entering the library hours after the protesters pushed their way past campus security officials and hung Palestinian flags on bookshelves.

Police said at least 80 people had been taken into custody, according to The Associated Press.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a pro-Palestinian student group, said in a post online that it had occupied part of Butler Library to “show that as long as Columbia funds and profits from imperialist violence, the people will continue to disrupt Columbia’s profits and legitimacy.”

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