(DC Pundit) – Apparently, the apple doesn’t fall far from the far-left tree.
Isra Hirsi, daughter of Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, recently lit up Instagram with a now-viral post that could easily double as a recruitment flier for radical extremists. In her message, Hirsi declared, “From L.A. to Rafah, there is one common oppressor — Death to the colonial empire.” The post praised violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles while comparing American immigration enforcement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, linking both nations as so-called “colonial empires” worthy of destruction.
The incident in question involved far-left agitators clashing with police and ICE agents during a chaotic protest. Palestinian flags were flown, “Free Palestine” was chanted, and demands for an “intifada” — the same term used in previous waves of violent uprisings against Israel — echoed through the streets. All the while, Hirsi decided this was the moment to cheer on the mayhem and give it an international spin.
Her post didn’t just support the riot — it reframed American immigration law and Israel’s national defense as part of a global system of “colonial oppression” that needs to be violently overthrown. In other words, she’s connecting ICE and the IDF in the same breath as if they’re some global bogeymen conspiring against her college activism.
A sitting congresswoman’s daughter is calling for the death of America and Israel.
Isra Hirsi has been arrested at antisemitic encampments that endangered Jewish students. Now she posts “Death to the colonial empire.”
This is dangerous and cannot be ignored, @Ilhan. America… pic.twitter.com/Qi0LhEWlyq
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) June 9, 2025
Critics slammed the post as an open endorsement of violent domestic insurrection. And they’re not wrong.
Khalil’s CUAD group publicly supported arsonist Casey Goonan. Goonan is accused of lighting a police car on fire at UC Berkely in protest of the U.S.’s support for Israel’s military operations. pic.twitter.com/GAQ6fJXoVM
— Senate Judiciary Republicans (@SenJudiciaryGOP) March 12, 2025
This isn’t the first time Hirsi has waded into extremist waters. In March, she promoted a fundraiser for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate arrested and facing deportation for his role in violent campus activism. Khalil, described as a “Hamas sympathizer who espouses violent, anti-American views,” wasn’t just any protester. He was a leading figure in Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a group that, among other things, called for the “total eradication of Western civilization.” Sounds more like a Bond villain plot than a student group.
Despite Khalil’s rap sheet, the fundraiser Hirsi promoted exploded past its initial $250,000 goal, raising over $570,000 — apparently, being an extremist with a good social media network pays.
Hirsi herself faced consequences for her behavior, sort of. Barnard College, affiliated with Columbia, suspended her for helping organize the unauthorized “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” which was ultimately broken up by NYPD officers. Naturally, her mother, Rep. Ilhan Omar, a staunch member of the far-left “Squad,” wasn’t just supportive. She was “enormously proud.”
I am enormously proud of my daughter @israhirsi.
She has always led with courage and compassion, from organizing a statewide school walk out on the 20th anniversary of Columbine at the age of 15, to leading the biggest youth climate rally at our nation’s Capitol at 16, and now…— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 19, 2024
Of course, she was. What else should we expect from a congresswoman who has spent her entire political career trashing the country that gave her and her family refuge from the violence of Somalia?
While Democrats continue to look the other way, this brand of radicalism is becoming the new normal on college campuses. Hijacking global conflicts to justify riots in American cities? Check. Equating ICE with foreign military operations? Double check. Publicly glorifying political violence while raking in cash for people facing deportation over it? Sadly, that’s now part of the activist playbook.
It’s long past time for Democrats to start asking themselves why so many of their rising stars are comfortable playing footsie with far-left extremism. But don’t hold your breath. When lawless mobs take to the streets, and members of Congress cheer them on, you know exactly which side of the line they’ve chosen. And it’s not the one that stands for America.
Copyright 2025. DCPundit.com | Featured image credit: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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