Columbia students reported feeling threatened when masked protesters stormed the campus library, chanted anti-Israel slogans, and mocked the Israeli hostage crisis.

Marco Rubio criticised the takeover at Columbia University's library. Pro-Palestinian protesters were involved. The visa status of foreign students is under review. Protesters occupied the library. They were demonstrating against university's alleged complicity.

At least 80 people were detained Wednesday after Columbia University called in the police during a pro-Palestinian protest, the New York Police Department told Axios.The big picture: Demonstrators occupied part of the university's main library,