Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Posts ‘Resistance Will Be Glorious’ on Anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas Massacre

Isra Hirsi, the daughter of US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), spread a message seemingly celebrating Hamas terrorism against Israel on Monday, the one-year anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre across the Jewish state.

In an Instagram story, Hirsi shared a picture of the Columbia University campus with the caption “resistance is glorious, we will be victorious,” referencing chants repeated by anti-Israel student activists opposing the Jewish state’s military campaign in Hamas-ruled Gaza.

On Monday, the anti-Israel campus group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) organized a student and faculty “walk out” to mark “an entire year of uninterrupted genocide” in Gaza. Despite declaring Oct. 7 as the beginning of a so-called “genocide,” speakers in the demonstrations simultaneously touted the infamous day as the “monumental step in the populist delegitimization of the state of Israel.” Hundreds of Columbia students and community members marched across campus to call for a “Free Palestine” and demand the university cut financial ties with Israel.

Hirsi — a Barnard College student and daughter of Omar, one of the most outspoken anti-Israel lawmakers in the US Congress — has previously found herself in hot water over her pro-Palestinian activism. Last April, Hirsi, alongside over 100 other protesters, was arrested by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for staging a raucous and unauthorized demonstration on the Ivy League campus, in which the agitators declared support for Hamas and called for the destruction of Israel. Barnard subsequently slapped Hirsi with a suspension over her violation of campus conduct policies.

Hirsi is a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — a spinoff of a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter that the university suspended for numerous violations of school rules — which previously invited a terrorist to campus.

Last school year, Hirsi participated in an unsanctioned student encampment on Columbia’s campus quad, in which she called for “divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of Columbia’s investments, and full amnesty for all students facing oppression.”

“I’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest at Columbia SJP, in my three years at Barnard College I have never been reprimanded or received disciplinary warnings. I just received notice that I am of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide,” Hirsi wrote on X/Twitter last spring.

Columbia University has been a hotbed of anti-Israel activism in the year following the Oct. 7 slaughters in the Jewish state. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led massacre, a deluge of Columbia student groups issued statements blaming the violence entirely on Israel and demanding that the university divest from the Jewish state. Visibly Jewish students at the New York-based university have reported being cornered and assaulted by their peers over their faith. Other Columbia activists, such as Khymani James, have declared that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”

During new student orientation for the current school year, anti-Israel activists distributed literature to freshmen which encouraged them to support Hamas and violence against Jews in the Middle East. CUAD recently walked back an apology issued last spring regarding the conduct of James. The organization reaffirmed their solidarity with his calls for violence, saying that “we support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance” and accusing James’s critics of “anti-blackness and queerphobia.”

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