Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s daughter once boasted about being so “woke” that she upset her fellow Gen Zers in a TEDx talk that resurfaced after she was arrested and suspended from Barnard College.
Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of a now Multi-day protest on the Columbia University campus in support of Palestine that has drawn strong condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House.
She and two of her Barnard College classmates (the college is a sister school to Columbia) were among the more than 100 protesters arrested, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Hirsi, who says she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, has long been a firebrand activist, as a 2020 TEDxTalk talk at Wake Forest University in North Carolina reveals.
In a talk called ‘The Angry Black Girl’, she said: ‘I would say something all the time and the kids in my classes used to get really angry when I pointed out everything, even if it was a little sexist… but I was proud of it. ‘
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s daughter once boasted about being so “woke” that she upset her fellow Gen Zers in a TEDx talk that resurfaced after she was arrested and suspended from Barnard College.
Hirsi, who holds more left-wing views than even his staunch Democrat mother, boasted about recording the talk in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
‘I turned 17, gave my first Ted Talk, and Bernie won Nevada. Best birthday ever,” she posted in a TikTok that was uploaded to Twitter.
The video included the caption: “The bitches are flying to North Carolina to give a talk on their 17th birthday.”
She said she had a reputation among her friends as a “token activist, politically correct cop and angry black girl.”
“Over time, people got really upset because I was hyperawake,” she said.
Hirsi said at the time that this did not deter her from activism and she joined groups fighting everything from climate change to gun violence.
‘I felt like I had to do it and because it also became my brand. I would denounce injustices. “When you join so many white-dominated groups you feel really alienated.”
Hirsi says she has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests.
Hirsi, who says she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, has long been a firebrand activist, as a 2020 TEDxTalk talk at Wake Forest University in North Carolina reveals.
‘I was a bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I going to go? And also all my shit gets thrown away in a random batch. It’s pretty horrible,” she said. teen fashion.
“I don’t know when I’ll be able to come home and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to.”
She said the Barnard College administration has left her in the dust when it comes to being able to get food.
“I sent them an email like, ‘Hey, I depend on campus for my meals, I depend on my meal plan,’ and they said, Oh, you can come pick up a bag of packaged food, 48 hours later. They suspended me,” said.
“There was no food support, or anything.”
Hirsi showed a worried face as she was seen handcuffed along with many other pro-Palestinian protesters, who were issued citations for trespassing.
She said they took her to 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan, where she was trapped for hours.
‘We had so many people who were born female in our group that they didn’t have enough space for us. “It was a very slow process to get everyone into the cells,” Hirsi said.
Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of a multi-day protest on the Columbia University campus in support of Palestine that has drawn strong condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House.
Hirsi, who holds more left-wing views than even his staunch Democrat mother, boasted about recording the talk in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
“They tied me up for about seven hours and didn’t release me until about eight,” adding that he didn’t leave until a total of 13 hours after his arrest.
Hirsi said most Barnard students “identify as female” and are warned that if they leave their dorms, they will not be allowed back in. Barnard is an all-women’s college.
What she hopes is that attention will shift away from university campuses and back to the plight of the people in Gaza, whom she says Colombia has “complicity in the genocide.”
“Many of us are grateful that people are paying attention and noticing how severe the repression has been on our campus, but it’s been a little frustrating to focus on Columbia over what’s happening in Gaza,” he said.
‘I am enormously proud of my daughter. She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walkout on the 20th anniversary of Columbine when she was 15, to leading the largest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at age 16, and now pressure your school to oppose genocide.’
The White House joined a chorus of people from across the political spectrum in criticizing pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University for anti-Semitic rhetoric at demonstrations on campus on Sunday.
“While every American has the right to peacefully protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation against Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly anti-Semitic, unconscionable, and dangerous; they have absolutely no place on any college campus or anywhere in USA”. United States of America,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates.
‘We will hold it down, but we will hold it down for Gaza, not just for the people who have been suspended; and the repression is explicitly due to the fact that we were fighting to end the war in Gaza,” he added.
Omar, for his part, praised his daughter. in a social media post after his arrest.
