‘Zionists don’t deserve to live,’ suspended Columbia activist said. Now his group rescinds its apology and calls for violence

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‘Zionists don’t deserve to live,’ suspended Columbia activist said. Now his group rescinds its apology and calls for *********

Nearly six months after Columbia University banned Khymani James, a Pro-************ student activist, who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” the coalition that had apologized on his behalf rescinded its statement of regret – and advocated for armed resistance against *******.

“Last spring, in the midst of the encampments, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) posted a statement framed as an apology on behalf of Khymani James,” CUAD posted Tuesday night on

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. “We deliberately misrepresented your experiences and your words, and we let you down.”

In a since-deleted post on X, James acknowledged in April that he had said several months earlier in an

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,” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” In the now-deleted April post, he said, “I misspoke in the heat of the moment, for which I apologize.”

Columbia suspended James in April, and he since sued the university to get his ban overturned.

“I never wrote the neo-******** apology posted in late April, and I’m glad we’ve set the record straight once and for all,” James wrote Tuesday in an

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. “I will not allow anyone to shame me for my politics. Anything I said, I meant it.”

CUAD helped ignite the protest encampments at Columbia in April that sparked a pro-Palestine and anti-******* movement on campuses across America. In the months since that movement started, the group has taken an increasingly hard-line stance against *******, advocating for violent uprisings against the country.

“We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance,” the group said in its statement. “Where you’ve exhausted all peaceful means of resolution, ********* is the only path forward.”

Columbia, in a statement, said Wednesday that it decried any calls for acts of *********.

“Statements advocating for ********* or harm are antithetical to the core principles upon which this institution was founded,” said University Interim President Katrina Armstrong, the university’s provost and executive committee, in a statement. “This has seemed so fundamental that it did not require saying; to hear such things in our community is an aberration, whether or not protected by the First Amendment. We must be clear: calls for ********* have no place at this or any university.”

CUAD’s post was made on October 8 – just one day after the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attacks. The ******* left more than 1,200 Israelis *****, and ****** continues to hold more than 100 people ********. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Defending itself against ensuing bombings from Iran and Hezbollah, ******* has expanded its war across the Middle East in recent months.

Meanwhile, *******’s war against ****** has left 40,000 people ***** in Gaza. The brutal war in Gaza and its massive civilian ****** toll has ignited widespread fury, even among *******’s allies. Calls for a ceasefire mount, but *******’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government have dug in and resisted such arrangements.

As the war grows bloodier and more intolerable, the protest movement on campuses has grown increasingly ********. Colleges that have struggled to contend with encampments,

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, Islamophobia and other hateful acts and speech are once facing a challenge of balancing free speech and safety.

Over the summer, many ********* universities adopted new sets of rules to support students’ security while allowing for non-disruptive forums for students to protest. But those new guidelines have quickly been put to the test in this new school year.

“We aspire to be an open campus but cannot be open while we are uncertain of safety,” Columbia said in its statement. “The trade-offs, between the safety of our students, faculty, and staff and the ideal of a campus porous to the city, are real. This week, with social media mixing calls for armed ********* in the Middle East with defenses of local statements calling for *********, the balance tips to safety.”

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