Columbia Students Arrested for Storming Library Include Several Repeat Offenders—Including Grad Student Who Demanded Humanitarian Aid From University

Free Beacon ^ | 5/9/25 | Jessica Costescu and Jon Levine

[CFW]

At least six of the Columbia students arrested for storming a Columbia University library on Wednesday are repeat offenders, including one student who demanded humanitarian aid from university, a Washington Free Beacon review found. They had already been arrested and disciplined for their involvement in earlier campus building raids or in last spring's encampments.

Of the 81 total arrests, at least 44 are Columbia students, while at least 13 attend the university’s sister school, Barnard College. Also arrested was one Barnard faculty member, Eva-Quenby Johnson, as well as two students at another Columbia affiliate, Union Theological Seminary.

The masked mob clashed with security officials, injuring two, passed out pamphlets endorsing Hamas’s violence, vandalized and damaged the library, and renamed it after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daughter, Ramona Sarsgaard, was among the anti-Israel radicals arrested by NYPD on Wednesday.

Gyllenhaal, a Columbia alumna, has described her daughter as "a real environmental activist," boasting in 2019 that Sarsgaard, then 13, inspired her to join the cause.

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At least four of the students arrested have already faced punishment for previously raiding campus buildings.

Columbia students Symmes Cannon and Hannah Puelle were arrested and suspended after they joined a mob that stormed Barnard College’s Millstein Library in March and clashed with police when they refused to leave. It’s unclear if their suspensions are still in effect. At least one student arrested and suspended over that incident, Gabrielle Wimer, resumed class beginning in mid-April, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

[CFW]

Students involved should be kicked out of school. Foreign students should have their visas cancelled. Those not enrolled in the college should be given the extra charge of trespassing and ALL should spend a year or two in prison.

[TexasFreeper2009]

insurrection! every one of them should get the same treatment as the J6 protestors did!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Repeat Offender]

Columbia Students Arrested for Storming Library Include Several Repeat Offenders

Arrest those imposters! It’s like Highlander - there can be only one.

[frank ballenger]

Repeat offenders. I have a suspicion not actually reading anything all those times, just yelling and causing trouble.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
—United Woke College Scammers Fund.

[frank ballenger]

They always get out so why should they worry?

I say don’t let the revolving justice door hit ‘ya where the Good Lord split ‘ya. But this time stay in jail.

[Lisbon1940]

By my math, 22 were outside agitators.

[ViLaLuz]

Those were peaceful terrorists at a calm riot.