Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she’s homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college over anti-Israel protests
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The privileged daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar amazingly claims she’s homeless and can’t get food after being kicked out of her prestigious $90,000-per-year Barnard College dorm following her arrest at last week’s anti-Israel protests on Columbia University’s campus.
Isra Hirsi, 21, and a handful of other Barnard students were slapped with suspensions after they were among the more than 100 protestors cuffed and hauled away for refusing to clear out from a tent encampment on the Ivy League school’s campus last Thursday.
“I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go?” she whined to Teen Vogue after learning she’d been evicted from campus housing and banned from using the dining hall.
“And also all of my s–t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible,” said the disgraced student still supported by her Democratic “squad” member mom, who said she is ” enormously proud” of her daughter.
“I have like four shirts, two pairs of pants,” Hirsi complained. “I don’t know when I can go home, and I don’t know if I ever will be able to.”
Hirsi’s mother, a far-left “Squad” congresswoman, earns a ecurrent congressional salary of $174,000 per year, according to a September 2023 report by the Congressional Research Service.Omar’s most recent personal financial filings do not disclose any assets of substantial value and her earned income is listed as “none disclosed”. Property records show she owns two properties, valued at under $500,000.
However, it was earlier revealed thatOmar funneled nearly $2.8 million to her husband’s political consulting company over a 1.5 year period, according to a report.
Omar’s campaign paid $1.6 million to E Street Group LLC, which is owned by her husband, Tim Mynett, from the start of 2019 to July 22, 2020, Fox News previously reported, citing Federal Election Commission data.
Another $1.1 million was sent to the firm in the third quarter and $27,000 in the following weeks.
The $1.1 million figure represented nearly 70 percent of the $1.6 million that her campaign spent in those three months, the report said.
The expenses were for a range of campaign services, including cable advertising, “digital consulting,” video production and editing, Fox News said.
Omar defended her expenses and said her campaign worked with Mynett’s firm long before they began a relationship.
Regardless, the FEC allows lawmakers to hire family members or spouses to work on their campaigns.
She could not be reached for comment by The Post on Monday.
Hirsi, who is a member of the anti-Israel student group Apartheid Divest, had already received notice of her suspension early Thursday — hours before the NYPD was called in to arrest protestors and help dismantle the anti-Israel protest encampment.
Barnard administrators had initially started warning their students late Wednesday that they risked being suspended if they didn’t clear out.
When Hirsi sought help from Barnard administration after being cut loose from jail on Thursday, she whined that she’d heard crickets.
“I sent them an email like, ‘Hey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my dining plan,’ and they were like, Oh, you can come pick up a prepackaged bag of food, a full 48 hours after I was suspended,” she told the magazine.
“There was no food support, no nothing.”
Follow The Post’s coverage of the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University:
Columbia cancels in-person classes to ‘reset’ as anti-Israel protests raise tensions
Columbia Jewish alumni demand firing of president Shafik for failing to protect students on campus
Speaking about her arrest, Hirsi said she was held in custody for roughly eight hours.
“We had so many people who were born female in our group that they didn’t have enough space for us,” Hirsi told Teen Vogue of her arrest. “It was a very slow process in getting everybody into the cells.
“I was zip-tied for about seven hours and wasn’t released for about eight,” she added.
Elsewhere, she also complained about Barnard’s president, Laura Rosenbury, was taking a tougher stance on students that Columbia University.
“Only Barnard students are evicted, and I think it’s pretty crazy,” Hirsi griped.
“I think it’s really on a school-by-school basis, and Barnard has decided to take a very egregious stand against us,” she continued.
