Arrest of Ilhan Omar’s daughter at anti-Israel protest was political, fellow 'Squad' member says

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., has claimed that the Thursday apprehension of chap "Squad" subordinate Rep. Ilhan Omar’s girl astatine anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University was governmental payback for the congresswoman’s probing of the institution’s enactment the time before. 

Bowman said Omar, D-Minn., had questioned Columbia leadership’s committedness to "free world expression" during a fiery legislature hearing on Wednesday and the pursuing time her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested.

"The time aft @IlhanMN questioned Columbia leadership's committedness to escaped world expression, the schoolhouse suspended her daughter?" Bowman posted connected X. "It's wide what is happening here. Our acquisition institutions should not beryllium successful the concern of governmental reprisals."

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Isra Hirsi departs 1 Police Plaza successful Lower Manhattan connected Thursday, April 18, 2024 smiling and waving. Hirsi, the girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was arrested during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)

Hirsi was taken into custody by the New York Police Department and enactment into flex cuffs oregon zip ties and volition look trespassing charges, according to sources. 

She was among much than 100 radical issued a summons for trespassing, the NYPD said. 

Hirsi, an organizer with Columbia University’s Apartheid Divest group, was released hours aboriginal from NYPD headquarters. Fox News Digital photos showed Hirsi smiling and waving arsenic she near 1 Police Plaza NYPD Headquarters successful Lower Manhattan.

Earlier successful the day, Hirsi said she was suspended from Barnard College, located adjacent Columbia, for "standing successful solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide."

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, right, has claimed that the Thursday apprehension of chap "Squad" subordinate Rep. Ilhan Omar's girl was done for governmental purposes. Omar is pictured near portion her daughter, Isra Hirs, is pictured center. (Getty | YouTube/screenshot-Brower Youth Awards)

Barnard College is 1 of 4 Columbia undergraduate schools which has an autarkic admissions process, program and fiscal structure, arsenic good arsenic a abstracted administration, according to the New York Post.

"Those of america successful Gaza Solidarity Encampment volition not beryllium intimidated," she wrote connected X. "We volition basal resolute until our demands are met. our [sic] demands see divestment from companies complicit successful genocide, transparency of @Columbia’s investments and FULL amnesty for each students facing repression."

Dozens of anti-Israel activists began protesting astatine Columbia University connected Wednesday morning, creating an encampment connected the main tract successful protestation of Israel's warfare against Hamas. Fiery protests continued into the overnight hours with calls for an intifada and the decease of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

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Isra Hirsi leaves 1 Police Plaza successful Lower Manhattan connected Thursday. The girl of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was arrested during an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)

On Wednesday, Omar questioned Columbia administrators during a legislature proceeding connected Capitol Hill astir anti-Israel activism connected the Ivy League campus. 

During the hearing, Omar sounded the alarm astir what she called an "attack" with a "toxic chemic substance" astatine an anti-Israel protestation astatine Columbia University. However, according to tribunal documents, the substance was a non-toxic flatulence spray called "Liquid A--" and "Wet Farts." 

Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.