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'A toll on your psyche': Jewish students recount mistreatment, harassment on college campuses

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WASHINGTON — Shoshana Aufzien was studying for her finals on May 7 in the Butler Library at Columbia University in New York City — her usual study spot — when she heard shouting and was soon to be disrupted by dozens of anti-Israel protesters who stormed and took over the reading room.

She happened to be seated near the doorway. So she took out her phone and began to film as the activists screamed into their megaphones and repeatedly refused requests from public safety officers for them to leave.

One video of the Butler Library protest shared on social media shows multiple keffiyeh-clad demonstrators yelling chants and pounding on drums. Another video shows an anti-Israel spray-painting "Learn From Palestine" on the library shelves.

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