The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has been suspended from Barnard College and is barred from entering certain buildings on the school’s campus after helping to organize an anti-Israel protest at Columbia University last week.

Isra Hirsi, a junior at Barnard, a private women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University, announced last week that she and three other students who helped organize the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University were suspended and barred from entering the Manhattan school’s dining hall and dorm buildings on campus not long after the school called in police officers to break up the encampment.

Hirsi told Teen Vogue in an interview on Sunday that “there’s some misunderstanding of what the camp was and what was happening in the camp,” and claimed that the protesters were not “disrupting campus life.”

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