Two university staffers were among the 44 anti-Israel protesters arrested inside the Columbia University building that a mob broke into and occupied this week, school officials said.

About 30% of those busted in Hamilton Hall Tuesday night were outsiders with no formal connection to the Ivy League school, according to a press release from Columbia.

“A significant portion of those who broke the law and occupied Hamilton Hall were outsiders,” the statement released Thursday said.

A protester is arrested at Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday night. Getty Images

“The majority were a mix of adults, including graduate students, two employees, and outsiders unaffiliated with Columbia University,” it noted.

The university’s implication that the illegal occupation of the academic building was spearheaded in part by outside actors echoed Mayor Eric Adams’ insistence that “outside agitators” were radicalizing the city’s college students.

Fourteen of those arrested inside Hamilton Hall were Columbia undergraduates, while nine were graduate students and two were employees, the school said.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators from the Columbia University encampment and Hamilton Hall are held in an NYPD corrections bus. John Lamparski/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Members of the NYPD detain protesters at Columbia. Getty Images

Six others were students at institutions affiliated with Columbia, the statement added.

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