A Columbia University student who discussed “killing Zionists” was “banned from campus” on Friday, according to a university spokesperson.
junior Khimani James expressed “regret” early Friday He was “not killing Zionists”, whom he compared to “white supremacists” and “Nazis” after his suggestion that people should be “grateful” went viral online.
Without explicitly mentioning what they were, James responded to the inflammatory comments that were first reported The Daily WireDuring a livestream of the official Colombia inquiry in January.
“I’m really hoping they’ll let me out because I wanted to travel to South America,” James said during the livestream about remaining a student at Columbia.
University sources said fox news digital Now disciplinary proceedings are underway.
Khimani James, a Columbia University student, apologized after an online video of him calling Zionists “white supremacists” and “Nazis” went viral. (Getty Images)
Before news of James’ ban broke, Colombia released an advertisement campus update The video was described as “extremely worrying and disturbing”.
“Calls for violence and statements targeting individuals based on religious, ethnic or national identity are unacceptable and violate university policy,” the statement said. “When student conduct policies are violated, they are reviewed and disciplinary measures are implemented.”
“What is a Zionist? A white supremacist,” James said in the resurfaced video.
He said at another point, “Be grateful that I’m not going out and killing Zionists.” “I’ve never hurt anyone in my life, and I hope to keep it that way.”
“So let’s be very clear here,” James, now 20, said in a video montage also compiled by The Daily Wire. “I’m not saying I’ll go out and start killing Zionists. What I’m saying is that if someone who identifies as a Zionist personally threatens my physical safety , that is, if he puts his hands on me, I’m going to defend myself. And in that scenario, it may come to a point where I don’t know when to stop.”
one in speech in front of cameraJames said that Zionists “should not cease to exist.”
“I feel very, very comfortable calling for those people to die,” James said at the time. “And with that being said, Khimani has been signed out.”
James was recently quoted in outlets such as CBS News and The New York Times as a spokesperson for anti-Israel protests in Colombia. He was profiled in 2021 boston globe About his “confrontational” approach to fighting “injustice” at the age of 17.
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In a statement released Thursday, James expressed “regret” for some of the rhetoric in his video, but also complained that “far right agitators” discovered his language in the first place.
“What I said was wrong,” James wrote. “Every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification. I also wish people had more context for my words, which I regret. Far-right agitators viewed my social media feed for months when Until they found a clip that they had edited out of context.”
“I am disappointed that the words I said in the Instagram Live video have become a distraction from the movement Palestinian liberation, James wrote, “I spoke out of anger, for which I apologize.”
James wrote, “I am disappointed that the words I said in the Instagram Live video became a distraction from the movement for Palestinian liberation. I spoke out of anger, for which I apologize.” (Peter Gerber)
James also claimed that the ideology of Zionists was abhorrent and compared them to “Nazis”.
James said, “There should be no Zionists anywhere. Zionists or Nazis.”
“And so if we can agree as a society, as a collective, that people, those people, those individuals, some individuals, have to die if they have an ideology that results in thousands, hundreds of Thousands, millions of people die, if such people exist, shouldn’t they die?”
“Why would we want people who are proponents of genocide to live? I’m confused!” James said.
James said, “Zionists, along with all white supremacists, do not need to exist because they actively kill and harm vulnerable people.” “They stop the world from moving forward.”
Fox News’ Jeffrey Clark and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
