"Violence and vandalism, hijacking a library, none of that has any place on our campus. These aren't Columbia's values." The post Columbia’s Acting President Outraged By Latest Pro-Palestinian Protests on Campus: I’m ‘Heartbroken and Incensed’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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.