Dozens of anti-Israel rabble-rousers protesting inside Columbia University’s Butler Library were hauled out by NYPD cops Wednesday — and Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed to review the visa status of the “pro-Hamas thugs.”

Around 80 agitators were taken into custody Wednesday evening, sources told The Post, as the Ivy League school faced another chaotic day on its Morningside Heights campus that officials said left a pair of school safety officers injured.

Video obtained by The Post showed a line of protesters led out in zip ties by NYPD cops and onto waiting police buses. 

“We are reviewing the visa status of the trespassers and vandals who took over Columbia University’s library,” Rubio said on X.

“Pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation.”

The mob of demonstrators initially shoved past a security guard at the library’s front entrance, according to footage of the scene — disrupting students who were attempting to gear up for final exams.

Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, one declaring the library a “liberated zone” and another bearing the name of Bassel al-Araj, a Palestinian activist killed by Israel Defense Forces in a 2017 raid in the West Bank — though they misspelled his first name as “Basel.”

The raucous demonstrators then donned keffiyeh headscarves and beat drums while clapping to chants of “Free, free Palestine.”

Photos obtained by The Post show protesters defacing the library walls, hanging Palestinian flags and marking tables with colored tape. Other images show about half a dozen security guards forming a line opposite a much larger group of protesters. 

Protesters scrawled “Columbia Will Burn” on a glass case inside the library, according to a photo shared online by a social media account run by Jewish and Israeli students at the school.

“Public Safety is currently clearing out all other rooms on the lower floors of Butler Library. Why are the protestors able to continue disrupting the basic function of our university while all other students have to pay the consequences?” Middle East studies major Eden Yadegar wrote on X.

An international student who was studying in Butler Library when the protest broke out described the disarray.

“Somebody hung up a flag, posters, stickers, people were scribbling on the walls, dancing on the tables, singing … Chanting like, I don’t know, ‘Free Palestine,’ the classics,” said the young woman, who did not want to be identified.

The entire ordeal lasted around five hours after the agitators burst into the library around 3:30 p.m.

Acting Columbia president Claire Shipman ripped into the protesters, stating that disruptions would not be tolerated. She also said she had no choice but to call in the NYPD for help.

At least two public safety officers were injured by the mob’s surge into the library, and officials believe some of the demonstrators were not affiliated with the elite school, she added.

“Requesting the presence of the NYPD is not the outcome we wanted, but it was absolutely necessary to secure the safety of our community,” Shipman said.

“Disruptions to our academic activities will not be tolerated and are violations of our rules and policies; this is especially unacceptable while our students study and prepare for final exams. Columbia strongly condemns violence on our campus, antisemitism and all forms of hate and discrimination, some of which we witnessed today.”

At one point, protesters wanted to leave the library willingly, but were not allowed to by school safety officers without showing their IDs, the international student said.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that the NYPD was sent to Columbia at the request of school officials to remove people who were trespassing.

He made clear leading up to the arrests that the city would “never tolerate lawlessness.”

“To Jewish New Yorkers, especially the students at Columbia who feel threatened or unsafe attending class because of these events: Know that your mayor stands with you and will always work to keep you safe,” Adams said.

“To parents of students protesting: Call your children and make clear that breaking the law is wrong and they should exit the building immediately. To those protesting on campus who do not attend Columbia: Exit the campus immediately or you will be arrested.”

The latest stunt pulled by anti-Israel protesters was wholly panned by Jewish advocates. The school has been a hotbed for rowdy activism since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the Jewish state launched the conflict in Gaza.

“It is unsafe, unbelievable, and unacceptable to have fully masked strangers barging into learning institutions,” Jewish Community Relations Council head Mark Treyger said. “This is not normal under any circumstance.”

Some members of the school community gave kudos to Columbia and the NYPD for their swift action.

“Columbia leadership deserves tremendous credit for swiftly restoring order to Butler Library so that students can study for final exams,” a collective of school staff who advocate for Jewish and Zionist voices said in a social media post.

“Invading a library to disrupt exam studying is not peaceful protest.

“We expect the University to follow through on its commitment to hold the participating students accountable for these selfish actions which violate our Rules, and we call on the [NYPD] and [Manhattan District Attorney’s Office] to do the same for non-affiliates.”

In an earlier statement issued soon after the library takeover began, Columbia’s Office of Public Affairs said the school’s Public Safety Team had responded, but that the demonstrators had all refused to identify themselves, which could lead to their arrests.

The school has been on alert since rumors circulated late last month that protesters were planning on re-establishing the campus tent encampments that plagued the Ivy League school for much of last spring.

Columbia is engaged in tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration, which threatened to pull $400 million in federal grants if the elite school didn’t do more to curtail acts of antisemitism on campus.

In March, the university agreed to many of the demands, including empowering 36 campus security guards to make arrests, installing new leadership to oversee its Middle East, South Asian and African studies department and Center for Palestine Studies, and banning mask wearing by students engaged in violations of school policies.

The school announced Tuesday it would slash about 180 staff positions, primarily those involved in academic research.

“Across the research portfolio we have had to make difficult choices and unfortunately, today, nearly 180 of our colleagues who have been working, in whole or in part, on impacted federal grants, will receive notices of non-renewal or termination,” Shipman said in a statement Tuesday.