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Rep. Ilhan Omar showed up at a Gaza encampment at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, making her the first member of Congress to publicly support the protests that Republicans have seized on as anti-semitic.
The Minnesota Democrat praised the student activists for 'putting your bodies on the line to end the genocide in Gaza.'
Omar showed up on campus after nine protesters were arrested on campus as police took down an encampment in front of the library. Hundreds of students had rallied to demand their release.
She tore into President Joe Biden and all elected leaders who have condemned antisemitism at such protests for not focusing more on the now-300 Palestinian bodies now found in a mass grave at a hospital in Khan Younis.
'It's been incredibly painful for last five days to see the discovery while there is a discovery of a mass grave ... that our media, our elected politicians our president every single elected leader is spending time and energy in talking about the protests as if you all are not here to give voice to the genocide that is taking place in Gaza.'
Rep. Ilhan Omar showed up at a Gaza encampment at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, making her the first member of Congress to publicly support the protests that Republicans have seized on as anti-semitic
The Minnesota Democrat praised the student activists for 'putting your bodies on the line to end the genocide in Gaza'
Omar's daughter was among 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Columbia University on Thursday.
Isra Hirsi, a 21-year-old Barnard student, was subsequently suspended from the university - and said she was left without food and a place to sleep as she was temporarily banned from campus.
Omar praised the protesters who were arrested along with her daughter as 'brave and patriotic students 'who stood up not on my time are you going to invest in state complacency and genocide not on my watch are you going to forget 34,000 people in Gaza have been massacred ... to allow highest number of children killed in a war in 10 years to take place with our tax dollars.'
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of left-wing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar , says she's has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University
The congresswoman was one of 37 Democrats to vote against Israel aid over the weekend, as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza since October 7 has surpassed 34,000.
Standoffs between students and universities have grown tense as administrators face pressure to crack down on protests that have at times veered into anti-semitic territory.
The protests, marked by tent encampments across campuses, began at Columbia University and have since spread to higher education institutions across the country.
The students are demand their universities boycott and divest from Israel.
On Tuesday night some 200 protesters were arrested for blocking traffic at the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn near the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of left-wing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar , says she's has nowhere to live or eat after being suspended for participating in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University
The Minnesota Democrat praised the student activists for 'putting your bodies on the line to end the genocide in Gaza'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is backing the large encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters who have overrun Columbia University's campus in recent weeks
And back at Columbia NYPD counterterrorism officers deployed to campus to clear out a days-long encampment.
President Minouche Shafik, under pressure to resign from Republicans, wrote an email to the so-called 'Gaza Plaza' group on Tuesday evening giving an ultimatum to dismantle voluntarily or else be cleared out.
Meanwhile than 130 people were arrested Monday night at a pro-Palestinian protest at New York University.
On Monday Shafik shifted classes to a hybrid, remote option saying that 'over the past days, there have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behavior on our campus.'
While some Jewish students are involved in the pro-Palestine protests, some demonstrators have adopted anti-semitic tactics.
Chabad at Columbia University, a chapter of an international Orthodox Jewish movement, said some protesters had shouted at Jewish students over the weekend 'all you do is colonize' and 'go back to Europe.'