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Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., girl says she has obscurity to spell and thing to eat pursuing her suspension from Barnard College aft taking portion successful anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University past week.
Isra Hirsi was among much than 100 group arrested and issued a summons for trespassing connected Thursday aft protests astatine Columbia University. Hours earlier, she said she had been suspended from Barnard College for "standing successful solidarity pinch Palestinians facing a genocide."
The 21-year-old has gone into much item astir nan suspension. Along pinch not being capable to spell to classes, she said she has been evicted from field lodging and banned from utilizing nan eating hallway pinch her repast plan.
"I was a small spot frantic, like, wherever americium I going to sleep? Where americium I gonna go? And besides each of my s--- is thrown successful a random lot. It’s beautiful horrible," she told Teen Vogue. "I don’t cognize erstwhile I tin spell home, and I don’t cognize if I ever will beryllium capable to."
REP. ILHAN OMAR'S DAUGHTER ARRESTED AND RELEASED AMID NYC ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Isra Hirsi departs 1 Police Plaza successful Lower Manhattan connected Thursday, April 18, 2024. Hirsi, nan girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, was arrested during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University earlier successful nan day. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
The student said she reached retired to field administration, but did not perceive backmost until 48 hours aft her suspension was handed down, erstwhile she was told she could prime up a prepackaged container of food.
Barnard College is 1 of 4 Columbia undergraduate schools that has an independent admissions process, program and financial structure, arsenic good arsenic a abstracted administration, according to nan New York Post. The assemblage did not instantly respond to a Fox News Digital petition for comment.
ARREST OF ILHAN OMAR’S DAUGHTER AT ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST WAS POLITICAL, FELLOW 'SQUAD' MEMBER SAYS
Isra Hirsi departs 1 Police Plaza successful Lower Manhattan connected Thursday, April 18, 2024. Hirsi, nan girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, was arrested during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University earlier today. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
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. Protests continued into nan overnight hours pinch calls for an intifada and nan decease of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Omar praised her daughter's information successful nan protests. Earlier successful nan week, she questioned Columbia administrators during a legislature proceeding connected Capitol Hill astir anti-Israel activism connected nan Ivy League campus.
Students astatine Columbia University returned to nan campus’ section area connected Friday greeting to proceed their anti-Israel protestation and opportunity they will "hold this line" until their demands are met. (FNTV)
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 Digital has reached retired to Omar's office.
Entrance Gate, Barnard College successful New York City. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., suggested Hirsi's suspension was a reprisal for her mother's questions.
"The time aft @IlhanMN questioned Columbia leadership's committedness to free world expression, nan schoolhouse suspended her daughter?" Bowman posted online. "It's clear what is happening here. Our acquisition institutions should not beryllium successful nan business of governmental reprisals."
Fox News' Michael Dorgan and Louis Casiano, Alexis McAdams and Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.
