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NEW: Some people just aren't that interesting.

But for the sake of transparency, the @FreeBeacon is publishing the names of the yet-reported anti-Israel radicals arrested after storming Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier this month.
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Below are the names of the individuals arrested on May 7. All but one was charged with criminal trespassing for storming the Columbia library, while the outlier, Hamza Mankor, was charged with misconduct and threatening behavior.

Nisreen Khokhar, a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School, signed several anti-Israel letters before her arrest. Just days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, while she was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Khokhar signed one that falsely accused Israel of committing genocide and called for an immediate ceasefire.

Priyanka Joshi is a Columbia senior studying philosophy and evolutionary biology. Joshi pursued a dual degree with Trinity College Dublin, according to a webpage for the program that has since scrubbed her presence. She’s quoted on the page saying, "You don't have to have a reason for everything you do." She's currently seeking an internship in New York City, according to her now-deleted LinkedIn.

Jessie Rubin, a Ph.D candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia, has long been a member of several anti-Israel groups, including Student Workers of Columbia (SWC), Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace. She also helped form Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)—the Ivy League school’s most notorious anti-Semitic group that took credit for the Butler Library storming.

Two weeks after Matthew Ware’s arrest, he graduated from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and was inducted into the school’s Delta Omega Honor Society, which was established to "recognize outstanding achievement in the field of public health."

Nadia Schwingle listed herself as a Barnard alumna in a November 2023 petition demanding Columbia reinstate the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter after it was suspended for repeatedly holding unauthorized anti-Israel protests. A university directory notes she is affiliated with Columbia’s School of Social Work.

Ysabelle Tiana "Bell" Santos is pursuing a Masters of Social Work at Columbia. "I am for equity because equity starts with everyone," she touted in a now-deleted LinkedIn page. In the past, she has worked as a behavioral therapist for the Manhattan Psychology Group.

Fatima Aamir is a student at Columbia’s Teachers College, according to the school’s student directory. When she’s not agitating for Hamas, she works as a therapist for Manhattan Alternative, which provides "nationwide kink, poly, trans & LGBQ affirmative providers," according to its website.

Hayes Buchanan graduated from Columbia in 2021 with a M.S. in urban planning, according to his LinkedIn profile. After finishing college, he moved to Lebanon, where he has spent more than three years working for Beirut Urban Labs.

Ayah Fakhy is a Columbia College student in the class of 2025. She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree with double majors in political science and sustainability studies and a minor in statistics, according to public records. Before attending college, she was active in Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, where she served as a "youth vanguard member." She also worked as a production assistant for Netflix.

Ben Patricia Erdmann, the chief engineer of Columbia University’s student radio station WKCR, pursued urban studies and art history at the Ivy League school. He’s slated to start a Ph.D. in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in the fall, his now-deleted LinkedIn notes.

Valerie Yang is pursuing a bachelor's degree in history at Columbia, according to her LinkedIn.

Jenna Elizabeth Price announced plans to attend Columbia to study visual art. Before it was removed, her entry in the Columbia student directory noted that she was studying in the religion department.

Mairead Hynes is a Ph.D. student in the history department "studying the comparative transpacific history of women’s war mobilization and anti-military feminism in 20th century Japan and the United States."

Aeden Kamadolli is a Columbia sophomore majoring in human rights.

Mohsin Kazim is a master's student at Columbia's School of Social Work, according to his deleted LinkedIn.

Safiya Isabella O'Brien is a Barnard undergraduate who was an officer with Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. She has a lengthy profilewith the watchdog group, Canary Mission, which notes that she began publicly supporting Hamas just one day after Oct 7. In December 2023, she whined in the Columbia Spectator that she didn't always feel safe wearing a keffiyeh.

Hayden Moir Chernow, meanwhile, attended Boston Latin Academy, a public exam institution ranked as a top-20 school, and resided in a five-bedroom, million-dollar home, before heading to Barnard.

After the Free Beacon emailed Moir Chernow to seek comment on her arrest, one of her mothers, Susan Moir, responded via Instagram. "Get a real life, you running dog for the MAGA movement," she told the Free Beacon reporter. When asked for further comment, the elder Moir deactivated her Instagram account. Her Instagram bio had read, "Palestine will be free. Stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Stop all military aid to Israel. Divest from all complicit corporations."

Cody Cragun was the salutatorian of Rio Rancho High School’s Class of 2022 in New Mexico and attends Barnard.

Melaina Rose Moy, who touts "she/her" pronouns, is a diversity and inclusion coordinator in the Barnard class of 2026. She is matriculated in the school's department of psychology.

Maya Andonina Weber—a Union Theological Seminary student who identifies as "they/she"—proudly notesher enrollment in a class called "Queer Theology," taught by the Rev. Dr. Patrick Cheng. Cheng, an expert in "Queer Anglicanism,"  serves as chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

Read the rest of the names here:
freebeacon.com/campus/heres-t…

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