'100% targeted': Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter speaks out after arrest and suspension

More than one hundred people were arrested at Columbia University in New York City on Thursday after occupying the school's South Lawn for 30 hours in support of Gaza. Among those arrested was Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. She had been suspended from neighboring Barnard College and was protesting at Columbia. Hirisi and Maryam Alwan, a fourth year Columbia student who helped organize the protest who was also suspended and arrested, joined MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin to discuss.

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[qotzpqd]

More than 100 arrested and she was "targeted". It only proves that the victimhood mentality is alive and well in some.

[SRNAsforpropofol]

Where were the protests when Boko Haram massacred over a hundred Nigerian Christians in church this past Christmas?

[junbueno]

Give her a one way ticket to 'Palestine'

[garyricky]

Why arent they protesting the way woman are being treated in gaza and all the Arabic countries?

[alanakafang]

100 people were arrested how was she targeted? your argument is stupid.

[rajasekhare]

Hope she has time to march for her fellow Africans facing genocide and starvation in occupied Sudan.

[gigis.]

If she and her mother hate America so much, then why not just leave?

[garimakaya]

More than a million displaced and many murdered in Sudan but nobody is protesting for those people, many are dying in Syria more than in Gaza but nobody is talking about that

[vidyaakularao]

Why these girls did not protest when 1200 Israelis were slaughtered on oct 7th

[ethanhastings]

Narcissist saying, “Look at me I’m protesting”

[mnumzanemadoda]

As an African i feel so honored that these privileged, ignorant children took time out of their self indulgent lives to protest things they have no knowledge of, on our behalf.

[MasonNothing]

They didn't talk about how their peaceful protest was belittling and forcing jewish kids from a certain part of campus. How they did not want any recording even from students and negotiating/demanding for supplies like criminals.

[UrNameIsToby]

They mispelled SON
also arent they supposed to wear a dishrag on their heads?!

[richardlisiura]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[christianq]

Can someone tell me where the Anti Hamas protest are being held? That's one I want to attend! Why no one is protesting them is unbelievable.

[misquoted]

The chemical weapons she was referring to was "fart spray"

[paulchejn]

The three are not victims, they are acting like terrorist.

[HoopCoach]

Not sure this is accurate reporting. The school is a private school on private property, and these people had no right to be there, they were asked to leave, they refused, and so they were arrested. This is a no-brainer.
If anyone wants to watch the protests, the students were not at all "peaceful" and were a clear disruption of the peace.
These 2 are NOT victims. They have just never been held accountable for their hate. They sound so ignorant and entitled.

[danmatthews]

Crazy how being a criminal is being praised.

[samgrace]

If the police openly say the was no clear and present danger then why were they arrested?