Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daughter Ramona was arrested during violent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University this week, reports say.
The star’s daughter, who she shares with actor Peter Sarsgaard, is a student at the New York college, which has been hit with a wave of protests in recent months.
After the most recent protest on Wednesday night, Ramona was reportedly slapped with a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespassing, sources told the New York Post.
Ramona was reportedly among almost 100 demonstrators who stormed Columbia’s Butler Library as their fellow students prepared for their final exams.
The group declared that the library was a ‘liberation zone’ and renamed it the ‘Basel al-Araj Popular University’ after a Palestinian militant whom Israel has accused of planning a full-scale attack.
The protests at Columbia that Ramona was reportedly a part of come as previous demonstrations at the university have also been linked to organizations accused of funding the Hamas terrorist group, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed last year.
The sit-in on Wednesday turned chaotic as several school security officers were injured, and at least 65 student agitators have so far been handed suspensions, school officials said.
It is not clear if Ramona was one of those suspended after the melee, however many of the protestors were caught as Columbia trapped them inside the library and would not let them out without showing identification.
Ramona’s mom Maggie and her A-list uncle Jake have both previously spoken out about their Jewish faith and heritage. The siblings’ screenwriter mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal is the descendant of Ashkenazi Jews from Latvia and Poland.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daughter Ramona was arrested during violent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University this week
Ramona (far right) is the daughter of actor Peter Sarsgaard (far left) and is the niece of A-lister Jake Gyllenhaal (center)
Anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia University’s main library on Wednesday, where the sit-in turned violent as several school security officers were injured
Social media was flooded with footage of the hostile demonstration earlier this week, which showed protestors stampeded into the library and charged at cops.
Students and some faculty remained inside the library for over an hour as they chanted anti-Israel slogans and spraypainted graffiti inside such as ‘Columbia Will Burn.’
But when the raucous demonstrators tried to leave the library, they were blocked by security guards at the Ivy League university unless they showed a proper school identification – leading to an hours-long standoff.
In one of the videos from the scene, guards could be seen telling the protesters they will be arrested for trespassing if they did not produce their school ID cards.
The blockage soon led an angry mob to try to push through the shuttered doors of the library, chanting ‘Let us out, let us out, let us out’ while their counterparts on the outside chanted ‘Let them out.’
The protests resulted in a total of 78 arrests at the college campus.
Representatives for Ramona’s father Peter Sarsgaard, mom Maggie and uncle Jake did not immediately respond to a request for comment on her reported arrest.
People take part in a pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library on the campus of Columbia University in New York on Wednesday evening
The chaos inside the library led even more protesters to gather outside – and prompted the school’s president to call police in chaotic scenes on Wednesday evening
The protests at Columbia came amid the university’s fight with the Trump administration to regain its federal funding, which was stripped due to its poor responses to previous anti-Israel demonstrations.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest – which is taking credit for the demonstration – claimed at the time that more than 100 people stormed the library.
‘The flood shows that as long as Columbia funds and profits from imperialist violence, the people will continue to disrupt Columbia’s profits and legitimacy,’ it said in a statement.
‘Repression breeds resistance – if Columbia escalates repression, the people will continue to escalate disruption on this campus,’ the group warned.
It said it was demanding ‘full financial divestment from Zionist occupation, apartheid and genocide; an academic boycott of all compliant institutions, including the cancelation of the Tel Aviv Global Center; cops and ICE off our campus’ and an end to ‘Columbia’s occupation of Harlem.’
The group also demanded ‘amnesty for all students, staff, faculty and workers targeted by Columbia University’s discipline.’
Ramona, pictured with her actor father Peter Sarsgaard, reportedly took part in the anti-Israel protests despite her Jewish heritage through her mother’s side
The protests at Columbia this week were widely condemned by officials after they turned hostile and violent toward officers
The protests at Columbia this week were widely condemned by officials after they turned hostile and violent toward officers.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams took to X to slam the demonstrations, saying: ‘As I’ve said repeatedly, New York City will always defend the right to peaceful protest, but we will never tolerate lawlessness.
‘To our 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.’
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul also said she was briefed on the situation, and said in a statement: ‘Everyone has the right to peacefully protest. But violence, vandalism or destruction of property are completely unacceptable.’
Rep. Elise Stefanik went even further, writing: ‘While Columbia students try to study for finals, they’re being bombarded with chants for a “global intifada.”
‘Not a single taxpayer dollar should go to a university that allows chaos, antisemitism and civil rights violations on its campus,’ she said, agreeing with President Trump’s decision to revoke more than $400 million in federal funding from the Ivy League school for its prior ‘mishandling’ of anti-Israel protests.
It now remains unclear whether Wednesday’s chaos will lead the Trump administration to further revoke the school’s funding.
Pro Palestine protesters are seen being arrested by the NYPD on the campus of Columbia University on Wednesday
But officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fox News they were monitoring the situation – and will fingerprint everyone who was arrested to determine if they are noncitizens.
‘Time to make a point,’ an ICE official said.
The State Department also warned foreign students about the consequences of breaking the law.
‘Foreign university students in America have been put on notice: If you break the law or support terrorism in our country, we will revoke your visa,’ it said.
‘This administration will not tolerate noncitizens causing mayhem on our college campuses.’
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