One of the most vocal student activists leading the anti-Israel Gaza
Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, Khymani James, openly
stated in an live-stream of an official university inquiry in January
that "Zionists don't deserve to live."

James, who states in the hearing that he goes by "he/she/they"
pronouns, live-streamed his meeting with Columbia's Center for Student
Success and Intervention, where he doubled down on an Instagram post
that sparked the report. In the report, which he reads aloud at the
start of the meeting, James 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?" a Columbia employee
asked James during the hearing, to which he responded: "No."

Meet Khymani James, a student leader of Columbia University's
anti-Israel Gaza Solidarity Encampment who openly states that
"Zionists don't deserve to live"

He made the comments during a meeting with the school that he
live-streamed.

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- Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 25, 2024

James, a junior and spokesperson of the Columbia University Apartheid
Divest group, has been the visible face of the protests that have
garnered national attention. He appears to still be a student at the
university, and has been one of the key organizers of the encampment.
He was one of the students who held a press conference on Wednesday,
where he claimed that the school conceded it would not call law
enforcement on the encampment.

In the video James posted to social media of his January interaction
with school officials, he defends his belief that all Zionists deserve
to die.

"I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to
die," James says. "And with that being said, Khymani is signed out."

In another post on his public social media profile, James stated that
he "carry that tool" and that he is "moving like I'm in an open carry
state."

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When asked about the seriousness of taking someone's life, James said
that sometimes it is necessary to murder people.

"I think that taking someone's life in certain case scenarios is
necessary and better for the overall world. I personally have never
killed anyone," he said. "Thank the Lord that no one has put me in that
position."

He compared the need to kill Zionists to killing Hitler or Haitian
revolutionaries who had to "kill their masters in order to gain their
independence."

"These were masters who were white supremacists. What is a Zionist? A
white supremacist. So let's be very clear here, I'm not saying that I'm
going to go out and start killing Zionists. What I am saying is that if
an individual who identifies as a Zionist threatens my physical safety
in person, i.e., puts their hands on me, I am going to defend myself
and in that case scenario, it may come to a point where I don't know
when to stop."

"I understand what you are saying," the Columbia employee responds.
"What resources do you think you have to make sure that you feel
protected as a student here?"

"My hands and my brains are my resources," James responded, before
going on to call the meeting "institutional violence."

James went on to say that "there should not be Zionists anywhere."

"People who hold those types of ideologies, the world is better without
them. That is what my comment is indicative of, and I will stand with
that," he said.

During a break in the meeting, James looked at his camera and called
the meeting "a joke."

"They definitely were hoping that I was going to walk back the `I fight
to kill,'" he said, cackling. James said he does "fight to kill" and
that is why no one has fought him since middle school.

When the employees returned from the break, they told him he would hear
from their office again. It's unclear what the result of the proceeding
was. After publication of this story, a Columbia University spokesman
indicated that there may have been "disciplinary measures" for his
conduct.

"While we do not comment on individual cases, when there are violations
of student conduct policies, they are reviewed and disciplinary
measures are applied," the spokesman said.

James did not respond to a request for comment.

James continued to rant on his livestream after the meeting concluded
and made some of his most unhinged statements.

"Zionists don't deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don't
deserve to live," he said. "The same way we are very comfortable
accepting Nazis don't deserve to live, fascists don't deserve to live,
racists don't deserve to live, Zionists, they shouldn't live in this
world."

"Be grateful that I'm not just going out and murdering Zionists," James
also said. "I've never hurt anyone in my life, and I hope to keep it
that way."

James said he welcomed getting kicked out of Columbia because he wants
to travel to South America and "live my best life."

He also contemplated what would happen if the United States supported
the murder of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"His death would theoretically mean that many people would live," James
states. "And so murder can absolutely be justified."

On the day after Hamas' massacre of more than 1,000 Israelis, James
began his anti-Israel activism on X, declaring "Free Palestine" while
terrorists were still in civilian communities in southern Israel.

FREE PALESTINE

- Khymani James (@KhymaniJames) October 9, 2023

On November 10, 2023, James posted his opposition to any two-state
solution.

"There is no `two-state solution,'" he said. "Palestinians need all
their land back, full stop."

James accused Israel of not caring about Jews in a December 2023 post
with a screenshot of a New York Times article claiming the government
dismissed intelligence about the Hamas attack before it happened.

"I knew this was gonna come out sooner or later - I quite literally
called it a month ago," James said. "This should tell you that Israel
doesn't really care about its citizens or Jewish people. They just want
any reason at all to speed up its genocide of Palestinians. Sickening."

"It's giving, `We're gonna let Hamas attack and kill/capture our
citizens so that we can finally start killing Palestinians in large
numbers again, and the international community will have no choice but
to support us,'" he wrote in a follow-up post.

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James has also posted frequently about being present in the Gaza
encampment, including writing "f*** that dumb a** graduation" in a post
about Columbia trying to clear the area to set up for the upcoming
graduation ceremony.

"[T]hat graduation next month is NOT happening as planned," he said in
another post.

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On Monday, James said that Zionists "tricked the world this much into
believing zionism = Judaism and anti-zionism = antisemitism."

James also went viral earlier this week for leading a human chain of
protesters to push pro-Israel students out of the encampment.

"One step forward," James was seen shouting before the crowd repeated
after him in unison and stepped forward.

Why are my friends and I being run off our own campus? We are
not moving.
pic.twitter.com/2T5JLSI0OH

- Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 22, 2024

In 2021, the Boston Globe wrote a glowing article about James and his
"confrontational approach." It said that James was a high school
student at the prestigious Boston Latin Academy, and a student member
of the Boston Public Schools committee before resigning because the
adult members were "racist and adultist."

Just a few months later, he called into a school committee meeting and
stated, "I, too, hate white people," while defending two members
accused of anti-white racism.

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Let's go Brandon!