Columbia student protest leader banned from campus after saying "Zionists don't deserve to live"

[Beastly Boy]

Columbia University has banned one of the students leading the university’s pro-Palestinian protests, a university spokesperson told CNN on Friday.

Khymani James, a student spokesperson for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition, acknowledged in a post on X that he said, “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” saying it was from an Instagram Live video taken in January.

“I misspoke in the heat of the moment, for which I apologize," James wrote.

“I want to make clear that calls of violence and statements targeted at individuals based on their religious, ethnic or national identity are unacceptable and violate university policy,” the university spokesperson said.

https://edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/columbia-university-palestine-protests-04-26-24/h_0dab8638c24c4f433ce07dd802abaa46

[ripcord]

1. I suppose the protesters will now include justice for Khymani chants

[MichMan]

2. Why did it take over three months ?

He said it in January in front of Columbia school officials. Apparently, it only became an issue once it became public.

[brooklynite]

3. I'd hate to think he'd be ejected from Columbia and would lose the opportunity to have an Ivy League degree...

[EX500rider]

4. Well gosh...

[LexVegas]

5. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism. nt

[Cha]

7. Exactly! TY

[Cha]

6. Fuck Yeah.. FAFO.. TY Columbia!!

You said what you thought, Khymani James .. you're Banned

from Campus.

“l' Chayim

[Jedi Guy]

8. Ah yes, the "heat of the moment" defense.

But of course that's not what he really thinks. It was just the heat of the moment, guys. He just got carried away, that's all. It's not a big deal, gosh.

Less flippantly, that excuse would never work for someone who started spouting racist bullshit. How often have we seen someone do exactly that and then say, "I got caught up in the heat of the moment, that's not who I am"? Plenty of times, and no one has bought it.

Mr. James didn't get "caught up in the heat of the moment". He didn't "misspeak". The mask slipped and he showed us who he really is. Columbia should show some spine and expel his ass, not just ban him from campus.

[PCIntern]

9. There was an old joke:

The guy goes into work and looks distressed. His coworker asks him why he’s looking so forlorn. The guy replies,”I had a Freudian slip at breakfast this morning and my wife’s really upset.”

The co-worker: what happened?

The guy: I meant to say “please pass the sugar”

The coworker: what DID you say

The guy: I said “You ruined my life you fucking bitch.”

[betsuni]

11. I love that joke!

[Paladin]

10. GOOD!

Continue your education at a junior college, Mr. James.

[Cha]

12. KIck.. TY

[Deep State Witch]

13. How Is This Different Than

"Jews will not replace us"? At this point, he might as well just join the Proud Boys and be done with it.

[Behind the Aegis]

14. How is this different you ask? (How very Passover of you, LOL!)

Well, we didn't have people on the left defending or making excuses for "Jews will not replace us" unlike the above anti-Semitic bullshit.

[Elessar Zappa]

15. Oh.

[rollin74]

16. Good!

Thank you Columbia University