‘Squad’ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s daughter once bragged of being so ‘woke’ it annoyed her Gen Z peers in a TEDx Talk that resurfaced after she was arrested and suspended from Barnard College.
Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of a now days-long protest on the campus of Columbia University in support of Palestine that has drawn heavy 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 with Columbia – are among the more than 100 protestors have been 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 an activist rabble-rouser, as a 2020 TEDxTalk 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 kids in my classes used to get super annoyed at me pointing out everything even if it was slightly sexist…but I was proud of it.’
Squad’ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar ‘s daughter once bragged of being so ‘ woke ‘ it annoyed her Gen Z peers in a TEDx Talk that resurfaced after she was arrested and suspended from Barnard College
Hirsi, who has further left views than even her staunch Democrat mother, bragged of recording the talk in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
‘Turned 17, gave my first ever ted talk, and bernie won nevada. best birthday ever,’ she posted in a TikTok that was put on Twitter.
The video featured the caption: ‘b****es be flying to NC to give a ted talk on their 17th birthday.’
She said that she had a reputation with friends as a ‘token activist, the politically correct police, and the angry black girl.’
‘Eventually people got really annoyed of me being hyper-woke,’ she said.
Hirsi said at the time that this didn’t discourage her from activism, joining groups fighting everything from climate change to gun violence.
‘I felt like I had to and because it also became my brand. I would call out 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 the anti-Israel protests.
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Hirsi – who says she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall – has long been an activist rabble-rouser, as a 2020 TEDxTalk at Wake Forest University in North Carolina reveals
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‘I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go? And also all of my s**t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible,’ she told Teen Vogue.
‘I don’t know when I can go home, and I don’t know if I ever will be able to.’
She said the administration at Barnard College has hung her out to dry when it comes to being able to get food.
‘I sent them an email like, “Hey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my dining plan,” and they were like, Oh, you can come pick up a prepackaged bag of food, a full 48 hours after I was suspended,’ she said.
‘There was no food support, no nothing.’
Hirsi displayed a worried face as she was seen being handcuffed alongside many other sit-in pro-Palestine protesters, who were issued with summonses for trespassing.
She recounted being taken to 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan, where she was stuck 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 in getting everybody into the cells,’ Hirsi said.
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Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of a now days-long protest on the campus of Columbia University in support of Palestine that has drawn heavy condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House
![Hirsi, who has further left views than even her staunch Democrat mother, bragged of recording the talk in a post on X, then known as Twitter](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/23/04/83929513-13338417-Kelly_also_remarked_that_Hirsi_pictured_right_with_her_mother_ha-a-16_1713843521553.jpg)
Hirsi, who has further left views than even her staunch Democrat mother, bragged of recording the talk in a post on X, then known as Twitter
‘I was zip-tied for about seven hours and wasn’t released for about eight,’ adding that she didn’t get out until a total of 13 hours after her arrest.
Hirsi said most of the students at Barnard are ‘femme-identifying’ and being warned that if they leave their dorms, they won’t be allowed back in. Barnard is an all-women’s college.
What she hopes is that the focus will be taken away from college campuses and return to the plight of people in Gaza, whom she says Columbia have ‘complicity in genocide.’
‘A lot of us are grateful that people are paying attention and noticing how severe our campus repression has been, but it has been a little bit frustrating to focus on Columbia over the focus of what is even happening in Gaza,’ she said.
‘I am enormously proud of my daughter. She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walk out on the 20th anniversary of Columbine at the age of 15, to leading the biggest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16, and now pushing her school to stand against genocide.’
The White House joined a chorus of people across the political spectrum in slamming pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia University over anti-Semitic rhetoric at demonstrations on campus Sunday.
‘While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting 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 the United States of America,’ said White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates.
‘We’re holding it down, but we’re holding it down for Gaza, not just because of the folks that have been suspended; and the repression is explicitly because of the fact that we were fighting for ending the war in Gaza,’ she added.
Omar, for her part, praised her daughter in a post on social media following her arrest.
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