Important Takeaways:

• Bowman said Omar, D-Minn., had questioned Columbia leadership’s commitment to “free academic expression” during a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday and the following day her daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested.
• She was among more than 100 people issued a summons for trespassing, the NYPD said.
• Hirsi, an organizer with Columbia University’s Apartheid Divest group, was released hours later from NYPD headquarters.
• Dozens of anti-Israel activists began protesting at Columbia University on Wednesday morning, creating an encampment on the main lawn in protest of Israel’s war against Hamas.
• Fiery protests continued into the overnight hours with calls for an intifada and the death of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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