Although pro-Hamas protesting has become fashionable among leftists across America and around the world, few activists have been able to spew as much anti-Israel rhetoric as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
As it turns out, the apple doesn’t seem to fall far from the tree. Her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was reportedly among the protesters arrested during a demonstration this week at Columbia University.
According to the New York Post:
Hirsi was one of more than 100 protesters who were hauled away in cuffs by the NYPD Thursday afternoon after they erected a tent city on the campus of the $90,000-per-year Ivy League school.
By late afternoon Thursday the protests had dispersed, and cleaning crews were brought in to disassemble and remove dozens of tents that littered the campus.
As the daughter of a controversial and outspoken congresswoman, whose own eyebrow-raising statements have led to accusations of being anti-American and anti-Semitic, Hirsi has spent much of her life attending demonstrations.
Hirsi addressed the issue herself on social media:
i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings
i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.
— isra hirsi (@israhirsi) April 18, 2024
The incident drew widespread reactions elsewhere on the platform:
The daughter of U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been arrested for her role in the illegal Colombia University protests.
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Somali-born Ilhan Omar, has been photographed in handcuffs after ignoring a police dispersal order.
She was also just… pic.twitter.com/aA8e16aQ2Q
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 18, 2024
To nobody’s surprise, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter was arrested and released, then suspended from Columbia University for engaging in the anti-Israel protests. I guess she figured if her mom can spew America-hating anti-Semitism in Congress, she could do it at Columbia.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 19, 2024
Ilhan Omar's psycho daughter just got suspended from Barnard over her Hamas activism, and she has a Soviet hammer & sickle emoji in her bio + pronouns. Perfection. pic.twitter.com/xhgMestxAs
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) April 18, 2024
Of course, Omar’s colleagues in the so-called “Squad” couldn’t help weighing in, including one who spread unfounded claims that her daughter was targeted for political reasons, per Fox News:
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., has claimed that the Thursday arrest of fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter at anti-Israel protests at Columbia University was political payback for the congresswoman’s probing of the institution’s leadership the day before.
Bowman said Omar, D-Minn., had questioned Columbia leadership’s commitment to “free academic expression” during a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday and the following day her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested.
“The day after @IlhanMN questioned Columbia leadership’s commitment to free academic expression, the school suspended her daughter?” Bowman posted on X. “It’s clear what is happening here. Our educational institutions should not be in the business of political reprisals.”
Here’s a lowlight from Omar’s record of anti-Israel public remarks:
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