Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter said she was suspended Thursday by Barnard College after refusing to leave an encampment set up on campus in support of Gaza.
Isra Hirsi, 21, said she received notice that she and at least two other students were suspended for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide,” Hirsi wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Hirsi, an organizer with a student group that advocates for Palestinians, said this was her first time being punished as a student activist in her three years at the New York City school.
“Those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated,” she wrote.
The suspension and protests underscore tensions that have been growing on campuses at universities across the U.S. since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict last fall.
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