Megyn Kelly had very little time for Isra Hirsi after the daughter of ‘Squad’ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar told a major magazine that she was homeless and without food after being suspended.
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 has now revealed she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, leaving her without shelter and food, which ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ host says is just desserts.
‘Could you spare me? I’ve only got crocodile tears for this person,’ Kelly said in reaction to Hirsi’s situation.
Megyn Kelly had very little time for Isra Hirsi (pictured center) after the daughter of ‘Squad’ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar told a major magazine that she was homeless and without food after being suspended
Hirsi has now revealed she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, leaving her without shelter and food, which ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ host says is just desserts
Kelly also remarked that Hirsi had ‘made herself a public face of these protests’ by agreeing to speak to both MSNBC and Teen Vogue.
‘She decides to paint her time there as like, she was basically just kicked out of the last homeless shelter in New York, with no food and no roof over her head,’ Kelly added.
Eliana Johnson, editor of the Washington Free Beacon, added that Hirsi’s behavior ‘violated university policy.’
Kelly wrapped the segment with a crack at rumors regarding Hirsi’s mother’s marriage.
‘I think we’re being too hard on Ilhan Omar’s daughter. Who let’s face it for a brief period of time, her uncle became her stepdad when her mom married her brother. So that kind of stuff can cause lasting damage, which can manifest itself in a number of ways,’ she joked.
Hirsi says she has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in the anti-Israel protests.
‘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.’
Kelly also remarked that Hirsi (pictured right with her mother) had ‘made herself a public face of these protests’ by agreeing to speak to both MSNBC and Teen Vogue
Hirsi says she has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in the anti-Israel protests
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, 21, 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.
‘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 saved her harshest words, however, for Laura Rosenbury, the president of Barnard, who she believes overreacted.
Hirsi said the administration at Barnard College has hung her out to dry when it comes to being able to get food
‘I think it’s really on a school-by-school basis, and Barnard has decided to take a very egregious stand against us,’ Hirsi said.
She said that Rosenbury and Barnard’s leadership ‘ feel like there isn’t a big limelight on them right now and that they have the ability to do this, because [Columbia President Minouche] Shafik was on the congressional stage and is actively being harassed about what she’s doing.’
Multiple lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have said that Shafik should resign, including Democrat Senator John Fetterman.
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-woman’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.
‘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.
Busloads of protesters were marched off as students hurled abuse at NYPD officers
‘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.
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