Via Twitchy, this is just such an unexpected plot twist.
I've been Sixth Sensed. Bruce Willis was The Invisible Man the whole time.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, revealed Thursday she has been suspended from Barnard College over her involvement in anti-Israel protests on Columbia University's campus.
"I'm an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege I have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings," the 21-year-old wrote on X.
"I just received notice that I am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide."
Hirsi and the two other students -- identified as Maryam Iqbal and Soph Dinu -- received notice of their suspension from Barnard Dean, Leslie Grinage, first thing Thursday morning, the Apartheid Divest said in a statement.
"This decision is based on information received from Columbia University Public Safety that you have been involved in an unauthorized encampment on the Columbia University campus and you have not ceased participation in this unauthorized encampment despite repeated requests from Barnard and Columbia on April 17, 2024 that you do so," the dean's email read, according to the student group.
Hirsi's suspension comes after at least three people were arrested overnight in connection with the ongoing tent protest on the Ivy League school's Morningside campus.
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In a follow up tweet revealing her suspension, a defiant Hirsi said protestors "will not be intimidated."
Clare Shipman, formerly some NBC reporterette and wife of Obama press secretary (and former fake "journalist") James Carney, reports that the anti-semitism at Columbia -- of which Barnard is a sister school -- is "shocking.
I'm shocked that you're shocked.
The co-chair of Columbia University's Board of Trustees, Claire Shipman, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the proliferation of anti-Semitism on the school's Manhattan campus is "shocking."
Shipman's husband, Jay Carney, served as press secretary under former president Barack Obama, a Columbia alumnus whose longtime friendship with one of the school's notorious anti-Semitic professors became a central issue in his 2008 campaign.
During Wednesday's House Education Committee hearing featuring testimony from Columbia president Minouche Shafik and other school leaders, Shipman was asked to respond to what one lawmaker described as "pro-terrorist expressions on campus on a significant scale."
"I think it says we have a lot of work to do. It's shocking," Shipman said. "I think it says that we have lost our way in terms of what we expect from each other in a learning community and in our society. I think we have to ... commit to speech that isn't laced with hate and isn't just meant to provoke."
Carney is probably more familiar with the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric that has percolated for decades on the Columbia campus, having accepted a job in the Obama administration in 2008, when Obama's friendship with one of Columbia's most prominent anti-Semitic professors was a recurring theme.
Though Obama professed support for Israel, the Los Angeles Times reported in the spring of 2008 that, in fact, Obama was a "friend and frequent dinner companion" of Rashid Khalidi, an anti-Israel scholar who has taught in Columbia's history department since 2003. Obama lauded Khalidi at a going away party before the professor joined Columbia, saying Khalidi gave "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases."
In the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, Khalidi argued the attack required "context," telling Democracy Now! that Israel's "settler colonialism" and "apartheid" regime was to blame.