Rep. Omar's Daughter Suspended From Barnard College For Pro-Palestine Protest

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, has been suspended from Barnard College, a women’s college associated with Columbia University, forThe demonstration was organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, where Hirsi serves as an organizer, and called for the university to sever ties with companies supporting Israel. By setting up an encampment on the university premises, the protestors violated university rules and received suspensions as a result.

Hirsi, a junior at Barnard, the women’s college connected to Columbia University, is an organizer with Apartheid Divest, a student coalition that has been pressing the university to cut ties with companies that support Israel. The group had set up an encampment at the university.Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi announced Thursday she had been suspended from college after taking part in an unauthorized pro-Palestine protest on campus.

“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,” Hirsi said on social platform X. “i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide,” she added.U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., praised her daughter Friday, a day after the Ivy League college student was arrested in New York City while participating in an anti-Israel protest.

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