Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrested

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Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrested

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World News@scribe.disroot.org · 1 day ago

On Wednesday afternoon, a group of around 100 anti-genocide student protesters took over the Butler Library’s main reading room and renamed it the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” after the Palestinian activist and writer killed by Israeli forces in 2017.

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