Barnard protesters distribute Hamas pamphlets during library takeover

Anti-Israel protesters at New York’s Barnard College, an affiliate of Columbia University, distribute Hamas pamphlets during an invasion of a campus library.

Footage shared by protesters shows masked activists waving Palestinian flags, chanting, and waving an effigy of the university president at the Milstein Library.

“Shut it down,” the protesters chant in a megaphone while beating on a drum.

Jewish students at the scene share photos showing the protesters distributing pamphlets by the “Hamas media office,” photos of the late Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, and writing “Death to America” in the library guest book.

Happening now: protesters @BarnardCollege are handing out pamphlets written by the Hamas Media Office justifying October 7th.

This is terrorist support in its rawest and most obvious form. pic.twitter.com/1t2V9HDNvw

— Elisha (Lishi) Baker (@LishiBaker) March 5, 2025

Barnard administrators hand out letters saying the disruption and library blockage is an “unauthorized activity” and that the protesters have refused to disperse, despite multiple warnings.

The letter warns the protesters that campus security will “review your identification and escort you off of the Barnard campus.”

Columbia says Barnard is a separate institution, although it is affiliated, and calls the disruption “not acceptable conduct.”

The protest comes a day after the Trump administration threatened to cut off more than $50 million in contracts with Columbia due to antisemitism.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which has grilled universities over antisemitism since October 7, called the protest “shameful.”

Protests on the campus have reignited after Barnard expelled two students for disrupting an Israeli professor’s class at the start of the semester.