Posted on 04/19/2024 6:26:37 PM PDT by Reno89519
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) slammed the suspension of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) daughter from college after she participated in a pro-Palestinian protest on campus.
“From UM to Vanderbilt to USC to Columbia, students across our country are being retaliated against for using their constitutional rights to protest genocide. It’s appalling,” Tlaib added while sharing Isra Hirsi’s post to social platform X.
Hirsi, Omar’s daughter, announced earlier that day in her post that she had been suspended from the university for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
“How does a student with no disciplinary record suddenly get to a suspension less than 24 hours after a nonviolent protest? What merits asymmetric crackdowns on Palestinian human rights protests,” Ocasio-Cortez said, also sharing Hirsi’s post.
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Barnard did not comment on specifics Thursday, but pointed to an announcement from its senior staff saying Columbia and Barnard students “set up an unauthorized encampment” on Columbia’s South Lawn.
Columbia made multiple requests that students participating in the protest leave the lawn before “a number of Barnard Senior Staff also went to the lawn to ask students participating in the encampment to leave,” according to the statement.
Senior staff members also advised students they would face sanctions if they did not leave, in addition to written warnings they would receive interim suspension if they did not leave by Wednesday night, according to the school.
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Trump had 4 years to yank Omar’s citizenship and deport her because of immigration fraud and he did nothing.
Terrorist sympathizer and rabid antisemite has fallen too far from the tree I see. The hatred these people are taught is the reason theyll never be free of their self debilitating urge for “revenge”.
They should just feel lucky that the wench wasn’t locked up in the DC gulag for misdemeanor Parading.
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