The Trump administration said Thursday it was “encouraged” by Columbia University’s response to a pro-Palestinian protest at the main campus library Wednesday where police took 80 people into custody.

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

Student protestors took over a room of Columbia University's Butler Library in a resurgence of the on-campus protests against the institution's ties to Israel that rocked the nation last spring and inspired similar protests and encampments at colleges and universities country-wide.