Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi said Columbia’s response to pro-Palestinian protesters storming the library was inciting more violence.

On Wednesday, Columbia called in the New York Police Department and arrested 80 students after they reportedly stormed the school’s library, injured two employees, carved “Columbia will burn” into framed pictures and would not leave or identify themselves after they were asked.

“Columbia University is participating in the destruction of the democratic system,” Mahdawi said in an

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