Isra Hirsi, daughter of left-wing congresswoman Ilhan Omar, says she has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
Hirsi, 21, was part of a now Multi-day protest on Ivy League 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, junior Soph Askanase and freshman Maryam Iqbal were suspended. Hirsi has now revealed that she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, leaving her without shelter or food.
‘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.
Isra Hirsi, daughter of left-wing congresswoman Ilhan Omar, says she has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.
“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 Bernard College administration has abandoned her when it comes to getting 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, 21, showed a worried face as she was seen handcuffed along with many other pro-Palestine 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.
Hirsi (pictured right with her mother), 21, was part of a days-long protest in support of Palestine that has drawn strong condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House.
Hirsi, junior Soph Askanase and freshman Maryam Iqbal were suspended. Hirsi has now revealed that she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, leaving her without shelter or food.
“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.
However, Hirsi saved his harshest words for Laura Rosenbury, Barnard’s president, who he felt overreacted.
“I think it’s really on a school-by-school basis, and Barnard has decided to take a very egregious stance against us,” Hirsi said.
He said Rosenbury and Barnard leaders ‘feel like there’s not a lot of attention on them right now and that they have the ability to do it, because [Columbia President Minouche] Shafik was on stage at Congress and is being actively harassed for what she is doing.
Several lawmakers from both parties have said Shafik should resign, including Democratic Sen. John Fetterman.
Hirsi said most Barnard students ‘identify as female’ and are warned that if they leave their dorms, they will not be allowed back in. Baranard is an all-women’s college.
She says she will remain homeless at least until the school gives her a hearing date on Monday.
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.”
However, Hirsi saved her harshest words for Laura Rosenbury (pictured), Barnard’s president, who she believes overreacted.
Buses full of protesters were expelled as students insulted New York police officers.
“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.
‘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.
‘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.
Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams also attacked the protesters in a post on X, criticizing them and the Ivy League university over reports of anti-Semitism.
“I am horrified and disgusted by the anti-Semitism that is spreading on and around the Columbia University campus,” he wrote.
Tensions had reached a boiling point since protesters pitched tents on the university’s south lawn at 4 a.m. Wednesday, and several fights broke out when they were met by pro-Israel counterprotesters.
For the fifth day, pro-Palestinian students occupy a central lawn on the Columbia University campus
Tensions had reached a boiling point since protesters pitched tents on the university’s south lawn at 4 a.m. Wednesday, and several fights broke out when they were met by pro-Israel counterprotesters.
For the fifth day, pro-Palestinian students occupied a central lawn on the Columbia University campus.
Dozens of New York Police Department officers have entered the so-called ‘Gaza solidarity camp’.
Ten students have been charged so far, most of them for resisting arrest and obstructing government administration.
A large group of protesters gathered outside the university gates on Saturday as students returned to the main lawn, waving flags and chanting.
In testimony before Congress, Shafik defended the students’ actions and insisted that he had been working to combat anti-Semitism.
Shafik stated that the “vast majority” of protests on campus have been “peaceful” and said the university is focused on defending free speech, but “cannot and should not tolerate abuses in this commitment to harass and discriminate.”
He highlighted holding daily meetings with the campus security team and working closely with the NYPD and the FBI in cases where hate crimes are reported.
Protests have erupted across the university’s campus over the past few months as war continues to brew in the Middle East.
However, they have only intensified amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas that has left more than 30,000 Palestinian civilians dead.
