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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., praised her girl connected Friday, a time aft nan Ivy League assemblage student was arrested successful New York City while participating successful an anti-Israel protest.
"I americium enormously proud of my girl @israhirsi," Omar wrote connected X. "She has ever led pinch courageousness and compassion, from organizing a statewide schoolhouse locomotion retired connected nan 20th day of Columbine astatine nan property of 15, to starring nan biggest younker ambiance rally astatine our nation’s Capitol astatine 16, and now pushing her schoolhouse to guidelines against genocide."
Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, left, said Thursday she was suspended from Barnard College pursuing her engagement successful an anti-Israel protestation connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City. (Getty Images)
"Stepping up to alteration what you can’t tolerate is why we arsenic a state person nan correct to speech, assembly, and petition enshrined successful our constitution," she added.
Isra Hirsi was among much than 100 group issued a summons for trespassing connected Thursday related to protests astatine Columbia University.
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