OAN’s James Myers
10:55am – Monday, April 22, 2024
The daughter of far-left Democratic Party member Ilhan Omar is currently banned from her dorm room at Barnard College, where she earns a reported $90,000 a year, and claims she is homeless and unable to pay for food. This follows her arrest at an anti-Israel protest on Columbia University’s campus last week.
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Ira Hirschi and a number of Barnard College students were suspended last Thursday as they were among more than 100 protesters who were captured, handcuffed and taken away for refusing to remove from campus. .
“I was a little panicked and thought about where I was going to sleep. Where am I going?” she said. teen vogue After learning she was evicted from campus housing and prohibited from using the dining hall.
“And all my wealth gets thrown into random lots. It’s pretty bad,” said a disgruntled student who is the daughter of Mr. Omar (D-Minn.).
“I have four shirts and two pairs of pants,” Hirschi said. “I don’t know when I’ll be able to go home, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to go home.”
This comes after the 21-year-old, a member of the anti-Israel group Apartheid Divest, was given a suspension notice early on Thursday. This was hours before New York City police were called in to arrest protesters and help clear the anti-Israel camp.
After her release on Thursday, she continued to complain, even though she had heard nothing from Bernard’s administration.
“I sent them an email saying, “We rely on campus for our meals, we rely on our meal plan,” and they said, “Oh, 48 hours later, we’re getting pre-packaged bags of groceries.” You can come and get it.’ I was suspended,” she told the magazine.
“There was no food assistance.”
Hirschi also said he was detained for nearly eight hours.
“There were too many people in our group who were born female, and there wasn’t enough space for us,” Hirschi said. teen vogue. “The process of getting everyone into the cells was very slow.
“I was zip-tied for about seven hours and wasn’t released for about eight hours,” she added.
She also said that Barnard College’s president, Laura Rosenberry, was harsher on students than at Columbia University.
“Only Barnard College students are being evicted, which I think is pretty crazy,” Hirschi fumed.
“I think this really depends on the school, but Mr. Bernard has decided to treat us in a very bad way,” she continued.
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