The anti-Israel activists reportedly occupied Barnard’s Milbank Hall for several hours and assaulted security guards, forcing the cancellation of classes.

Anti-Israel activists at Barnard College storm a campus building in protest of the expulsion of two students who disrupted an Israeli professor’s class at Columbia University last month.

The staff member was taken to the hospital as protestors refused to remove their masks to meet with university administration

Barnard is a women’s college that shares academic and extracurricular resources and is an official college of Columbia University. The students’ expulsions mark the first politically related ones at Columbia in 57 years and the first official expulsion over the Gaza war, according to Cuad.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters took over Milbank Halll at Barnard College late Wednesday, demanding administrators reinstate two expelled students who disrupted an Israeli history class in a