Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi boasts about being so woke it even annoys her Gen-Z friends in resurfaced clip
The daughter of “Squad” Congresswoman Ilhan Omar once boasted that she was so “woke” that it irritated her Gen Z colleagues in a TEDx talk that resurfaced after she was arrested and suspended from Barnard College.
Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of one now Days of protest on the campus of Columbia University in support of Palestine drew heavy condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House.
She and two of her classmates from Barnard College — the college is a sister school to Columbia — are among more than 100 protesters arrested, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Hirsi — who says she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall — has long been an activist rabble-rouser, as evidenced by a 2020 TEDxTalk at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
In a talk called “The Angry Black Girl,” she said, “I would say something all the time and the kids in my class would get super annoyed when I would point out everything, even if it was a little sexist… but I was proud of it on. ‘
The daughter of Squad’ Congresswoman Ilhan Omar once boasted that she was so “woke” it irritated her Gen Z colleagues in a TEDx talk that resurfaced after she was arrested and suspended from Barnard College
Hirsi, who holds further left-wing views than even her staunch Democratic mother, bragged about recording the speech in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
“I turned 17, gave my first ever Ted talk, and Bernie won Nevada. best birthday ever,” she posted in a TikTok posted to Twitter.
The video included the caption: “b****es fly to NC to give a Ted talk on their 17th birthday.”
She said she had a reputation among friends as “a token activist, the politically correct cop and the angry black girl.”
“People ended up getting really annoyed because I was hyper-awake,” she said.
Hirsi said at the time that this did not stop her from practicing activism and joining groups fighting everything from climate change to gun violence.
‘I felt like I had to and because it also became my brand. I would like to point out injustice. When you join so many white-dominated groups, you really feel alienated.”
Hirsi says she has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in the anti-Israel protests.
Hirsi — who says she has been kicked out of campus housing and banned from the dining hall — has long been an activist rabble-rouser, as evidenced by a 2020 TEDxTalk at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
‘I was a bit panicky, like: where am I going to sleep? Where am I going? And also all my shit gets thrown into a random lot. It’s pretty horrible,” she said Teen fashion.
“I don’t know when I can go home, and I don’t know if I ever will.”
She said the Barnard College administration has sidelined her when it comes to getting food.
“I sent them an email like, ‘Hey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my meal plan,’ and they said, Oh, you can come pick up a pre-packaged bag of food 48 hours later. “I have been suspended,” she said.
“There was no food support, nothing.”
Hirsi showed a concerned expression as she was seen handcuffed alongside many other sit-in pro-Palestinian protesters, who were issued summonses for trespassing.
She said she was taken to Police Plaza 1 in Manhattan, where she was held for hours.
‘We had so many people born as women in our group that they didn’t have enough room for us. It was a very slow process to get everyone into the cells,” Hirsi said.
Isra Hirsi, 21, was part of a now days-long protest on the campus of Columbia University in support of Palestine, which has drawn heavy condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House.
Hirsi, who holds further left-wing views than even her staunch Democratic mother, bragged about recording the speech in a post on X, then known as Twitter.
“I was zip-tied for about seven hours and wasn’t released until after eight hours,” adding that she wasn’t released until a total of thirteen hours after her arrest.
Hirsi said most of Barnard’s students are “femme-identifying” and are warned that if they leave their dorm, they won’t be allowed back in. Barnard is an all-women’s college.
What she hopes is that the focus will be taken away from college campuses and back to the plight of the people of Gaza, whom she says Columbia has “complicity in genocide.”
“Many of us are grateful that people are paying attention and noticing how severe our repression on campus has been, but it has been a little frustrating to focus on Columbia instead of what is even happening in Gaza,” she said.
‘I am extremely proud of my daughter. She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walk on the twentieth anniversary of Columbine at age 15, to leading the largest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16- years old, and now pushing her school to stand against genocide.”
The White House joined a chorus of people from across the political spectrum criticizing pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University for anti-Semitic rhetoric during demonstrations on campus Sunday.
“While every American has the right to peacefully protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation against Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly anti-Semitic, unconscionable, and dangerous—they have absolutely no place on any college campus, or anywhere in the world.” United States. States of America,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said.
“We’re stopping it, but we’re stopping it for Gaza, not just because of the people who have been suspended; and the repression stems explicitly from the fact that we were fighting to end the war in Gaza,” she added.
Omar, for her part, praised her daughter in a social media post after her arrest.