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.

Columbia punished students for protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, escalating a growing crackdown on campus dissent.

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Dozens of protesters stood on tables, beat drums and unfurled pro-Palestinian banners in the reading room of Columbia University's main library on Wednesday in one of the biggest campus demonstrations since last year's student protest movement against Israel's war in Gaza.