Columbia University has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week.

New York police intervened after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the university’s main library Wednesday evening.

A faculty rights group at Columbia University condemned the administration for calling the NYPD to gain control over an anti-Israel protest at the campus library.

"Everyone has the right to peacefully protest. But violence, vandalism or destruction of property are completely unacceptable," she wrote. According to Columbia's website, university IDs will be required to access buildings at the Morningside campus Thursday.

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Freed Columbia University protester Mohsen Mahdawi was allowed to stride across the graduation stage Monday — just three weeks after being cut loose from an immigration jail. The 34-year-old, who was draped in a keffiyeh, paused in the middle of the stage as he listened to some of his fellow grads cheer him on.

Colleges and universities across New York are clamping down on signs of protest as graduation season gets underway, while the sector faces immense pressure from the Trump administration to quash