“Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter cried foul over the lack of available information about what happened to the students whom she alleged sprayed “chemical weapons” at the anti-Israel protesters occupying Columbia University last week.
Isra Hirsi, 21, who was suspended by nearby Barnard College over her involvement in the Thursday demonstrations, called the higher education institutions hypocritical for their approach to the unrest.
“There is definitely some hypocrisy here,” Hirsi groused on MSNBC Monday night. “You can kind of see it with the students that sprayed us with the chemical weapons and the fact that there is no public information as to what happened to them.
Although she didn’t specify what “chemical weapon” incident she was referencing, a Jewish student at Columbia University recently filed a suit against his suspension for discharging two “novelty fart sprays” during one of the protests.
That spray, which was bought on Amazon, was “non-toxic,” that student referred to as “John Doe,” alleged in the lawsuit.
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