New York Post
By Amanda Woods and Olivia Land
Published Oct. 12, 2023, 12:31 p.m. ET
An Israeli student was beaten with a stick outside Columbia University’s main library this week — amid heightened tensions on the Ivy League campus over the Israel-Hamas war.
Cops responded to a report of a 24-year-old man assaulted at 535 W. 114th St. — right outside Butler Library — around 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, the NYPD said.
The victim and a 19-year-old woman were having an argument, which turned physical when she allegedly beat him in the hand with a wooden stick, according to police.
The suspect, Maxwell Friedman, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with an assault, cops said, adding that the victim refused medical attention at the scene.