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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., has claimed that nan Thursday apprehension of chap "Squad" personnel Rep. Ilhan Omar’s girl astatine anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University was governmental payback for nan congresswoman’s probing of nan institution’s activity nan time before.
Bowman said Omar, D-Minn., had questioned Columbia leadership’s committedness to "free world expression" during a fiery legislature hearing on Wednesday and nan pursuing time her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested.
"The time aft @IlhanMN questioned Columbia leadership's committedness to free world expression, nan schoolhouse suspended her daughter?" Bowman posted connected X. "It's clear what is happening here. Our acquisition institutions should not beryllium successful nan business of governmental reprisals."
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Isra Hirsi departs 1 Police Plaza successful Lower Manhattan connected Thursday, April 18, 2024 smiling and waving. Hirsi, nan girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was arrested during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
Hirsi was taken into custody by nan New York Police Department and put into flex cuffs aliases zip ties and will look trespassing charges, according to sources.
She was among much than 100 group issued a summons for trespassing, nan NYPD said.
Hirsi, an organizer pinch Columbia University’s Apartheid Divest group, was released hours later from NYPD headquarters. Fox News Digital photos showed Hirsi smiling and waving arsenic she near 1 Police Plaza NYPD Headquarters successful Lower Manhattan.
Earlier successful nan day, Hirsi said she was suspended from Barnard College, located adjacent Columbia, for "standing successful solidarity pinch Palestinians facing a genocide."
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, right, has claimed that nan Thursday apprehension of chap "Squad" personnel Rep. Ilhan Omar's girl was done for governmental purposes. Omar is pictured near while her daughter, Isra Hirs, is pictured center. (Getty | YouTube/screenshot-Brower Youth Awards)
Barnard College is 1 of 4 Columbia undergraduate schools which has an independent admissions process, program and financial structure, arsenic good arsenic a abstracted administration, according to nan New York Post.
"Those of america successful Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not beryllium intimidated," she wrote connected X. "We will guidelines resolute until our demands are met. our [sic] demands see divestment from companies complicit successful genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for each students facing repression."
Dozens of anti-Israel activists began protesting astatine Columbia University connected Wednesday morning, creating an encampment connected nan main section successful protestation of Israel's warfare against Hamas. Fiery protests continued into nan overnight hours pinch calls for an intifada and nan decease of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Isra Hirsi leaves 1 Police Plaza successful Lower Manhattan connected Thursday. The girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was arrested during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
On Wednesday, Omar questioned Columbia administrators during a legislature proceeding connected Capitol Hill astir anti-Israel activism connected nan Ivy League campus.
During nan hearing, Omar sounded nan siren astir what she called an "attack" pinch a "toxic chemic substance" astatine an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University. However, according to tribunal documents, nan constituent was a non-toxic flatulence spray called "Liquid A--" and "Wet Farts."
Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.
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