NYC doctor, serial anti-Israel protester, 47, among non-students arrested at Columbia, CUNY raids

Several agitators busted Tuesday night when police raided encampments at Columbia University and the City College of New York are seasoned anti-Israel protesters who don’t even attend the Big Apple schools.

More details about some of those taken into custody emerged Wednesday as Mayor Eric Adams blamed “outside agitators” for sowing chaos on the college campuses besieged by protests.

The massive police response that quelled the anti-Israel demonstrations at both Manhattan schools led to over 280 arrests.

At Columbia, where rioters had broken into an academic building and others camped out on the South Lawn, at least 109 protesters were busted, authorities said. Others were taken into custody 20 blocks north at City College.

Among the non-students hauled away by cops was Fernando Bobis, 42, an internal medicine doctor in Washington Heights who whined Wednesday morning about the conditions he faced behind bars.

“Five and a half hours in a holding cell with no bathroom, no water, no food. I had a hard time checking my insulin to make sure I was okay. I’m Type 1 diabetic,” Bobis, who was arrested at CUNY, told reporters after his arrest was processed at NYPD headquarters.

He was among several protesters who were released from One Police Plaza — as hundreds of their comrades greeted them with cheers and handed out bottled water, food and sunscreen.

The Brown University graduate, who was charged with disorderly conduct, wasn’t the only non-student arrested overnight.

Known anti-Israel protester Jesse Pape, 47, who has clashed with NYPD officers at other anti-Israel rallies, was also booked Tuesday night on two counts of assault after protesting at CUNY.

He allegedly threw a water bottle at a female cop when she and her fellow officers tried to clear one of the encampments, police sources said.

Pape was one of three individuals arrested over the chaotic “All Out for Palestine” rally that took place outside Columbia on Feb. 2, with the man charged with obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.

He has cheered on the protests taking place at universities across New York and the nation on his Instagram page, which touts the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — labeled by the Anti-Defamation League an antisemitic phrase promoting the end of Israel.

Another non-student, 40-year-old James Carlson, was arrested at Columbia on a burglary charge.

Carlson’s previously been involved in protests that have blocked local bridges and tunnels, sources said.

He was also charged Wednesday with criminal mischief, criminal possession of stolen property and arson in connection to an incident last month when a Jewish counter-protester was targeted by three men outside Columbia, police said.

One suspect took the 22-year-old victim’s Israeli flag, another tossed a rock at the counter-protester while a third aggressor lit the flag on fire, cops said. Two other men are still being sought by cops in the April 20 attack.

Two more non-students with past troubling incidents, Nora Fayad, 22, and Amelia Fuller, 23, were arrested at City College. They were both charged with attempted burglary.

Fayad was seen on video chanting, “We are Hamas” and “We are all Hamas” at an earlier protest, according to sources and videos posted on social media.

Meanwhile, Fuller was arrested Jan. 8 during a protest in which the Williamsburg Bridge was blocked, sources said.

Barnard College student Maryam Iqbal was also identified as one of the people arrested in the police raids.

Iqbal previously emerged as one of the 108 students who were arrested in Columbia during the first attempt to clear out the encampment on April 18, claiming it strengthened her resolve to keep protesting.

“This has only strengthened my commitment to the movement for Palestinian liberation and I promise to continue fighting for divestment,” she wrote.

Iqbal also claimed her first bust led to her suspension and eviction from Barnard, a punishment that the Columbia University-affiliated women’s college handed out to at least 53 students following the first wave of arrests.

Another student, Aidan Parisi, 27, a postgrad student in social work at Columbia, was spotted being arrested in photos from the Tuesday night raid.

Parisi was suspended from the Ivy League school in March for hosting an event titled “Resistance 101,” which garnered backlash after one of the speakers insisted that “there is nothing wrong with being a fighter in Hamas.”

Parisi has repeatedly made anti-Israel social media posts in the past, most recently writing, “Good night. F–k Israel,” on X following the initial arrests at Columbia.

The postgrad is also the subject of a police probe for sharing images of a Columbia University message to encampment protesters with the text, “Columbia will Burn,” written over the notice in red marker, sources said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many of the 282 protesters arrested were students at either Columbia or City College.

But a City College spokesperson told The Post that of the 31 people whom school safety officers arrested before the NYPD arrived, only five were CUNY students or staffers.

At least 10 people didn’t even live in New York, the school said.

A tent encampment sprang up on the university campus nearly two weeks ago as students demanded the school divest from Israel and provide full amnesty for those arrested and suspended at the encampment.

At around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, after talks between the demonstrators and school leaders broke down, a group of masked rioters stormed Hamilton Hall, an academic building on campus, and barricaded themselves inside.

Columbia and its leaders, including president Minouche Shafik, faced backlash from all sides for letting the situation deteriorate and ultimately said in a statement that the school had called in the NYPD for help.

Of those arrested, about 170 were given criminal summonses while the remaining 100 were either handed more serious desk appearance tickets or were waiting for their cases to make their way through the system, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference.

“As my office does in every instance, in all of our work, we will look carefully at each individual case on our docket and make decisions based on the facts and the law. That will include a thorough review of bodycam footage, and interviews with witnesses,” Bragg said.

Mayor Eric Adams insisted earlier Wednesday that the seizure of Hamilton Hall “was led by individuals who were not affiliated with the university,” though he conceded that some in the group were students.

He claimed “outside agitators” descended on the campus as part of a “movement to radicalize young people.”

One student, who only identified herself as Melissa, said Wednesday she and others were peacefully protesting when the raid occurred.

“Last night we experienced extreme police brutality. Despite peaceful, peaceful protest, the police ambushed us,” she said, adding that her pinkie was injured after being handcuffed.

Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab studies at Columbia, likened the current protest to the famed 1968 demonstrations on campus that saw students unite against segregation and the Vietnam War.

“We honor the day students, who in 1968, oppose genocidal, illegal, shameful, war,” Khalidi told The Post. “Columbia University honors them … One day, what students did here will be commemorated in the same way.”

Joseph Howley, an associate professor of classics, echoed the criticism against the school, claiming when the administration first called police on students on April 18, “they made the encampment a flashpoint.”

“I am a devoted faculty, steward and servant of this university, and I could not be more furious that we are out here doing this again already,” he said of the recent arrests.

Howley claimed the university was ultimately bowing to the demands of “some Jewish students,” even if it meant arresting other Jewish students who took part in the protest.

“They’ve used the feelings of some Jewish members of our community as a fig leaf for suppressing all speech on this campus. so that’s how we got here,” he added.

The elite institution remained under a partial lockdown Wednesday, with only those with Columbia IDs and essential personnel being allowed on campus.

Additional reporting by Olivia Land, Georgett Roberts and Steven Hirsch