Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, stated she had been suspended from Columbia College for collaborating in a protest encampment over the Gaza warfare and the college’s investments in Israel.
Dozens of scholars had camped out for 2 days on the college campus earlier than police moved in on Thursday morning to interrupt it up.
The suspension got here simply at some point after congresswoman Omar had grilled the college’s president concerning the concentrating on of pro-Palestinian protesters at a congressional listening to on Wednesday.
“i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i’ve by no means been reprimanded or acquired any disciplinary warnings,” Ms Hirsi wrote on X.
“i simply acquired discover that i’m 1 of three college students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians going through a genocide,” she added.
She wrote in a separate publish: “these of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment won’t be intimidated. we are going to stand resolute till our calls for are met. our calls for embrace divestment from corporations complicit in genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for all college students going through repression.”
Congresswoman Omar has beforehand expressed help for the protesting college students, writing that Coliumbia had “an unbelievable historical past of scholars combating for a extra simply world.”
Movies posted to social media on Thursday appeared to indicate NYPD officers arresting some members of the encampment.
Columbia College didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Unbiased.
The suspension comes after the president of Columbia College, Nemat Shafik, was grilled by Ms Omar on Wednesday throughout a Congressional listening to on what the congresswoman described because the “concentrating on” of pro-Palestinian protesters on campus by personal investigators employed by the college.
The listening to was targeted on antisemitism on campus.
Ms Shafik stated the case referred to by Ms Omar associated to college students who held an internet name with “individuals who had been inciting violence.”
