'Squad' member Ilhan Omar backs 'peacefully protesting' Columbia students including whining daughter Isra Hirsi who was arrested and suspended and doubles down on calling Gaza war 'genocide'

'Squad' member Rep. Ilhan Omar showed solidarity with student activists protesting on Columbia University's campus against Israel while also calling the Jewish state's military operation in Gaza a 'genocide.' 

Omar'a statement came after her own daughter, Isra Hirsi, was one of the 100 or so activists arrested during a protest at the Ivy League school. 

'On Thursday, Columbia arrested and suspended its students who were peacefully protesting and have now ignited a nationwide Gaza Solidarity movement,' the controversial Democrat wrote on X. 

'This is more than the students hoped for, and I am glad to see this type of solidarity. But to be clear, this is about the genocide in Gaza and the attention has to remain on that.'

Protests have been widespread across college campuses for a week now with activists holding often violent rallies at NYU, Yale and MIT. 

On Monday night, a riot broke out following a protest by pro-Palestine students at California Polytechnic University in the town of Arcata. 

Omar'a statement came after her own daughter, Isra Hirsi, was one of the 100 or so activists arrested during a protest at the Ivy League school

Omar's daughter says she's has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University 

Hirsi (pictured right with her mother), 21, was part of a now days-long protest in support of Palestine that has drawn heavy condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, including the White House

In the wake of the protests in New York, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced that he has pulled his donation money from the school.  

'The school I love so much – the one that welcomed me and provided me with so much opportunity – is no longer an institution I recognize,' The Patriots' owner and Columbia graduate said on Monday.

'I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country.'

Kraft added: 'It is my hope that Columbia and its leadership will stand up to this hate by ending these protests immediately and will work to earn back the respect and trust of the many of us who have lost faith in the institution.

The billionaire also said he hopes Columbia's Kraft Center for Jewish Student life serves 'as a source of security and safety for all Jewish students and faculty on campus.'

Hirsi and two of her Barnard College classmates - the college is a sister school with Columbia - are among the more than 100 protestors have been arrested, an NYPD spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com.

Hirsi, junior Soph Askanase and freshman Maryam Iqbal were all suspended. Hirsi has now revealed she has been evicted from campus housing and banned from the dining hall, leaving her without shelter and food.

'I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go? And also all of my s**t is thrown in a random lot. It's pretty horrible,' she told Teen Vogue.  

'I was zip-tied for about seven hours and wasn't released for about eight,' adding that she didn't get out until a total of 13 hours after her arrest.

 Hirsi saved her harshest words, however, for Laura Rosenbury, the president of Barnard, who she believes overreacted.

'I think it's really on a school-by-school basis, and Barnard has decided to take a very egregious stand against us,' Hirsi said. 

She said that Rosenbury and Barnard's leadership ' feel like there isn't a big limelight on them right now and that they have the ability to do this, because [Columbia President Minouche] Shafik was on the congressional stage and is actively being harassed about what she's doing.' 

The protests have pitted students against one another, with pro-Palestinian students demanding that their schools condemn Israel’s assault on Gaza and divest from companies that sell weapons to Israel. 

Some Jewish students, meanwhile, say much of the criticism of Israel has veered into antisemitism and made them feel unsafe, and they point out that Hamas is still holding hostages taken during the group’s Oct. 7 invasion.

Tensions remained high Monday at Columbia, where the campus gates were locked to anyone without a school ID and where protests broke out both on campus and outside.