Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is again facing censure in the House after referring to some Jewish students at Columbia University as pro-genocide.

Omar, who is of Somali heritage and a member of The Squad, a faction of extreme left-wing Democrats, made the comments Thursday during a visit to the tent encampment set up by pro-Palestinian protesters at the university. Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, a junior at Columbia’s sister school Barnard College, was among a number of protesters arrested April 18 and then suspended for participating in the encampment.

The Columbia protesters are demanding the university divest itself from companies that they claim profit from Israel’s war against Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

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