Anti-Israel protesters violently clash with NYPD cops outside City College of New York

Anti-Israel protesters violently clashed with police who arrived to clear out an “intifada” encampment at the City College of New York late Tuesday around the same time as officers were also finally called to end the takeover of nearby Columbia University.

The chaos broke out around 8 p.m. as protesters at the public university in Harlem tried to bust through a barricade blocking them from reaching the tent city that popped up Friday, video posted to social media shows.

Cops can be seen pushing the demonstrators back as they tried to maintain their position, video posted on social media shows.

One man and a cop exchanged hard shoves while some protesters hurled garbage at the officers.

Suddenly a swarm of cops moves in to make arrests, the clip shows.

As the protests moved out into the streets, one man was filmed bashing an NYPD officer in the head with a 5-gallon water jug with a sticker that read “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

The man was promptly wrestled to the ground by several officers and taken into custody, video shows.

Later in the night, a sea of cops in riot gear flooded through the front gates of the college as a recorded message repeated: “This is the New York City Police Department. You have been warned as per City College to leave the campus. If you refuse to leave, you may be placed under arrest,” police video showed.

“As requested by the university, we are currently on campus to assist the university in dispersing those trespassing,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry wrote on X.

The officers then swarmed the lawn where protesters set up tents and began arresting individuals who had linked arms to form a human barrier around some of the tents.

Once the encampment was cleared out, police removed a Palestinian flag that had been raised by the protesters on the campus flagpole and replaced it with the American flag.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many City College protesters were nabbed.

The busts unfolded around the same time hundreds of officers swooped onto Columbia University’s campus to oust a pro-terror mob that illegally took over the Hamilton Hall academic building.

About 100 protesters were cuffed and hauled away from Columbia in the dramatic sweep, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Meanwhile, the City College encampment had popped up at the state-funded college on Friday.

Tensions flared when rumors circulated that CUNY administrators were working to shut the rally down.

The mob’s numbers swelled Tuesday afternoon as the group CUNY4Palestine urged supporters to mobilize amid reports the encampment would be cleared.

Organizers had warned hours ahead of the clashes that attempts to shut down the demonstration would be “met with anger.”

The quad was littered with tents and Palestinian flags, as well as signs demanding that the CUNY system divest from Israel in light of the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

“Palestine calls this University Intifada,” Within Our Lifetime organizer Nerdeen Kiswani shouted to the crowd in a fiery speech earlier this week.

“We have a right to control where our tuition goes and that it should never go to oppressing any people anywhere!”

It was not immediately clear if all the protesters were affiliated with the school — though CUNY Professor James Hoff wrote on X that there were “lots of faculty and … union members” in attendance.

City College was on spring break until Tuesday, according to the academic calendar.

CCNY president Vince Boudreau announced Tuesday that campus was closed and all classes would be remote on Wednesday due to the encampment, which he said was “posing significant difficulties for us.”

Compared to previous demonstrations the college has seen since war erupted in Gaza in October, this latest demonstration “has been more contentious and violent than anything we’ve seen on campus before,” the president said.

He said “this is not primarily a CCNY demonstration, and perhaps not primarily a CUNY demonstration.”

“This is obviously a wrenching moment for the CCNY community and for me personally,” Boudreau added.

“I know that you all join me in the fervent hope that this encampment can be brought to a peaceful conclusion.”