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

New York City police took 80 people into custody after responding to protests on Columbia's campus, the police department said.

Dozens of people were taken into custody by the New York Police Department at Columbia University after a pro-Palestinian protest in an area of the main library on campus Wednesday. The large demonstration comes as universities including Columbia face the threat of funding cuts from the Trump administration,