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Leader of Columbia Gaza tent protest: ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’

Columbia University student Khymani James said during a livestream in January: ‘Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists’

April 26, 2024 11:23
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Khymani James, a junior at Columbia University and leading organiser of Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, said during a livestream in January that "Zionists don't deserve to live." (Photo: Screenshot via X)
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One of the student leaders of Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment has been criticised after saying during a livestream in January that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”

James – who uses he/she/they pronouns – filmed himself during an official university inquiry into a social media post in which the Columbia third-year student warned Zionists who may want to “meet up and fight” and that he “fights to kill.”

“Do you see why that’s problematic in any way?" the representative from Columbia’s Center for Student Success and Intervention asks James, 20, during the hearing, to which he replied: “No.”