A mob of masked anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library Wednesday — with the chaos injuring at least two school safety officers and later sparking dozens of arrests, officials and law enforcement sources said.
Around 80 agitators were taken into custody so far Wednesday evening, sources said, just hours after a large group of activists were caught on camera shoving past a security guard at the library’s front entrance earlier in the day.
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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