They were warned. Multiple times. But these students were so convinced that camping on a campus would remake the world that they stunningly and bravely refused to leave when ordered to by the college.
The NYPD showed them the error of their ways.
Simple thumb-rule: People covering their faces are the bad guys https://t.co/Ev5wDwVLBJ
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) April 18, 2024
It wasn’t exactly Kent State, thank God. It was a bit more like exasperated parents giving their unruly child a “time out” as a last resort when a toddler is having a tantrum.
BREAKING‼️NYPD cops arrested anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protestors from Columbia University grounds today after the president of the college finally made the decision to remove the protestors.
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, was one of the protestors and she’s been suspended… pic.twitter.com/dOW1IbZmTI
— Ermias (@ErmiasAlem) April 18, 2024
Among the stunning and brave peace warriors was Isra Hirsi, a Barnard College at Columbia student. Hirsi unsurprisingly hates America as much as her entitled communist mother (yes, she actually is a communist and comes from a family that was part of the Somali government before it was tossed out).
It is likely no coincidence that the students were arrested almost simultaneously with the testimony of Columbia’s president on Capitol Hill. Academic presidents are under enormous pressure to push back against all the Hamas love and Jew hatred on their campuses, and evicting the students was a great opportunity to demonstrate that universities might not be “safe spaces” for only the right kind of hate.
Update: Barnard College sent a statement announcing the suspension of students who are at the unauthorized encampment at Columbia University.
One of the suspended students is Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi. pic.twitter.com/spuDShyoci
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) April 18, 2024
Ilhan Omar was displeased that her daughter got caught up in the backlash, perhaps because she had to plunk down some cold, hard cash to send her daughter to school. Or, perhaps, she believes in communist immunity and terrorist privilege.
Or both. Probably both.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, has been suspended from Barnard College, a part of Columbia University, due to her involvement in anti-Israel protests.
This action follows Rep. Omar’s questioning of Columbia University’s president regarding the treatment of… pic.twitter.com/yuEB7mifU1
— Gene Mikhov (@genegmb) April 18, 2024
The Left is obsessed with shutting down free speech, but they get upset when people who are actually breaking the law having tantrums about fake causes face even the smallest of consequences.
Dr. Cornel West is egging on the “liberated zone” protesters at Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/X787EVbnXR
— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 18, 2024
What these students are doing is not “free speech” at all. It is harassment and intimidation and in this case, trespassing. Not to mention violating a raft of school policies to which the students agreed when they decided to attend. Sending out a tweet should force people to lose the privilege to participate in society, but breaking the law in the service of terrorists is moral activism.
those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated. we will stand resolute until our demands are met.
our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression
— isra hirsi (@israhirsi) April 18, 2024
“Repression.” Ah, would that it were so. This is no more repression than a parent sending a child into their room. I suggest Isra visit their mother’s homeland to discover what real repression is. It is as absurd as her parent, an actual Congresswoman, complaining about the horrible discrimination she faces every day.
Commie gonna commie, though.
Columbia has always had an incredible history of students fighting for a more just world and it’s good to see that tradition continue. As NYPD surrounds young activists, I hope their concerns are heard by school administrators and they not be criminalized. In solidarity ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/UV8k3xltKT
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 17, 2024
Ilhan Omar happens to be my congresswoman, so I have had a front-row seat in her rise to power. She mobilized the huge Somali refugee community to get her endorsed first as a State Representative and then for Congress in a close primary. Antisemitism has been one of her pitches to the large Somali community here, although Leftist Jewish leaders have been hesitant to oppose her for fear of being labeled xenophobic.
“We will honor all the martyrs. All the children, sons and daughters.
We will honor all the martyrs.
All the parents, fathers, daughters.”@Columbia today. This is how the elite Ivory Tower student body now looks en masse. Visible and vocal solidarity with jihadis who bomb,… pic.twitter.com/UE6iDg55ej— Matthew Tyrmand (@MatthewTyrmand) April 18, 2024
We shall see if that pattern holds this year. Will intersectionalism beat out the rejection of hate? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
But I do have a tiny bit of hope that Omar may, as her daughter has, face the consequences of her actions.
We are all allowed to hope, aren’t we?