Columbia Bans Protest Leader Over Anti-Zionist Statement

Columbia University is confirming that Khymani James, an organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at the school, has been banned from its campus after a video surfaced where he is shown declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and that people should be “grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”

The video has recently surfaced from earlier this year, with James making the comments in January, at about the same time he and school officials met about a social media post he’d written about fighting a Zionist, reports The Hill.

“I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill,” he wrote in the social media post. 

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Columbia Bans Protest Leader Over Anti-Zionist Statement

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