Posted on 04/23/2024 1:39:40 PM PDT by John Semmens
Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn) daughter Isra Hirsi was one of 108 students arrested at the request of Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik. "I took this extraordinary step because these are extraordinary circumstances. The individuals who established the encampment violated a long list of rules and policies. The vile and overt anti-Semitism has made many other students feel unsafe."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) called the arrests "an unjustified suppression of freedom of speech. These students are protesting Israel's indiscriminate massacre of Palestinians in retaliation for Hamas' heroic October attack against the Jews' illegal occupation of Palestine. Instead of removing these protesters from Columbia's grounds we should be removing Jews from the Palestinian land they stole in 1948."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pointed out that "Hirsi is not only an exemplary student, but the daughter of a member of Congress. She is no commoner and shouldn't be treated like one. That she should be carelessly lumped together with lower ranking persons and put in a police bus is just appalling."
Hirsi complained, saying "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." However, President Shafik asserted that "all the students were warned that if they didn't take down their encampment and choose a less disruptive way of expressing their opinions they would be arrested."
If you missed any of the other Semi-News/Semi-Satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,529955.0.html
Ouch. Some satire cuts close to the bone.
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