Ilhan Omar joins the pro-Palestinian college resistance with speech attacking ... trends now

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Rep. Ilhan Omar showed up at a Gaza encampment at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, making her the first member of Congress to publicly support the protests that Republicans have seized on as anti-semitic. 

The Minnesota Democrat praised the student activists for 'putting your bodies on the line to end the genocide in Gaza.' 

Omar showed up on campus after nine protesters were arrested on campus as police took down an encampment in front of the library. Hundreds of students had rallied to demand their release. 

She tore into President Joe Biden and all elected leaders who have condemned antisemitism at such protests for not focusing more on the now-300 Palestinian bodies now found in a mass grave at a hospital in Khan Younis. 

'It's been incredibly painful for last five days to see the discovery while there is a discovery of a mass grave ... that our media, our elected politicians our president every single elected leader is spending time and energy in talking about the protests as if you all are not here to give voice to the genocide that is taking place in Gaza.' 

Omar's daughter was among 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Columbia University on Thursday. 

Isra Hirsi, a 21-year-old Barnard student, was subsequently suspended from the university - and said she was left without food and a place to sleep as she was temporarily banned from campus. 

Omar praised the protesters who were arrested along with her daughter as 'brave and patriotic students 'who stood up not on my time are you going to invest in state complacency and genocide not on my watch are you going to forget 34,000

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