{"id":2230303,"date":"2024-04-25T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-and-daughter-show-face-at-columbia-protest\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:55:20","slug":"ilhan-omar-and-daughter-show-face-at-columbia-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-and-daughter-show-face-at-columbia-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar and her daughter join Columbia protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Filhan-omar-and-daughter-show-face-at-columbia-protest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2230303&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Ilhan Omar and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-senate-judiciary-committee-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-for-supreme-court-democrats-boycott-committee-vote\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee Confirms Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court -- Democrats Boycott Committee Vote\">daughter<\/a>\u200d Isra Hirsi recently attended an anti-Israel protest at Columbia University. Isra, a Barnard student, had \u2063been arrested and suspended from Columbia \u200bfor prior involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-abortion-now-requires-fighting-americans-increasing-hatred-of-children\/\" title=\"Fighting Abortion Now Requires Fighting Americans\u2019 Increasing Hatred Of Children\">campus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">protests<\/a><\/a>. The duo participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-latest-drug-pricing-moves\/\" title=\"What You Need To Know About Trump\u2019s Latest Drug Pricing Moves\">demonstration<\/a> together, where Omar posed for a photo, engaged with reporters, and stood near the protesters&#8217; encampment in\u200b front\u200b of\u2064 Columbia&#8217;s Low Memorial Library.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tRep. Ilhan Omar and daughter Isra Hirsi (@houmanhemmati\/X)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and her daughter Isra Hirsi, a Barnard student who was arrested and suspended from Columbia University last week for her role in anti-Israel protests on campus, attended another anti-Israel demonstration at Columbia together on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Omar posed for a photograph with her daughter and answered a reporter\u2019s question near the protesters\u2019 encampment in front of Columbia\u2019s Low Memorial Library, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houmanhemmati\/status\/1783543173882736965\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span>  to an X post on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-university-campus-unravels-in-face-of-anti-semitic-eliminationist-protests\/\"><span>anti-Israel protests<\/span><\/a><span>  at Columbia, which began last Wednesday with hundreds of students establishing an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/\"><span>encampment<\/span><\/a><span>  on a campus lawn to demand the university divest from Israel, reached a fever pitch when more than 100 student protesters, including the Minnesota congresswoman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/\">daughter<\/a>, were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/nyregion\/arrested-columbia-students-suspended.html\"><span>arrested<\/span><\/a><span>  by New York City police and suspended from Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The crackdown, however, did little to quell the protests. Columbia has since <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/23\/us-news\/columbia-university-moves-to-hybrid-classes-for-rest-of-semester\/\"><span>canceled<\/span><\/a><span> in-person classes for the rest of the spring semester, leading House speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and other Republican representatives to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/watch-house-republicans-slam-anti-semitic-protesters-on-columbias-campus\/\"><span>call for<\/span><\/a><span>  the resignation of Columbia president Minouche Shafik.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Omar on Monday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1782479944699814394\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  the arrested and suspended protesters &#8220;were peacefully protesting and have now ignited a nationwide Gaza Solidarity movement. &#8230; This is more than the students hoped for and I am glad to see this type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-expects-ties-visit-by-morocco-to-israel-next-week\/\" title=\"Netanyahu expects ties visit by Morocco to Israel next week\">solidarity<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But to be clear, this [is] about the genocide in Gaza and the attention has to remain on that,&#8221; Omar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Omar, a member of the progressive group of House Democrats known as the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; has faced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/congress-boots-anti-semitic-democrat-ilhan-omar-from-foreign-affairs-committee\/\"><span>censure<\/span><\/a><span>  from her colleagues for repeatedly engaging in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ilhan-omar-controversies-anti-semitism\"><span>anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and her daughter Isra Hirsi, a Barnard student, attended an anti-Israel protest at Columbia University. Isra was recently arrested and suspended from Columbia for her involvement in campus protests. The mother and daughter duo participated in another demonstration at Columbia, where Omar also posed for a photograph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2230304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-3.20.48-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-3.20.48-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}