Cackling non-binary Columbia encampment leader says ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’ and brags that he’d beat one to death for ‘threatening his physical safety in person’
A Columbia student with a long resume in the art of protest posted a livestream of himself declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
Rising Columbia University senior Khymani James, who uses “he/she/them” pronouns, is currently one of the leaders of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that has overtaken the school’s New York City campus.
In a recording of the stream posted to X by Daily Wire journalist Kassy AkivaJames meets with staff at Columbia’s Center for Student Success and Intervention through an Instagram post of his warning Zionists in his DMs that he is “fighting to kill.”
An employee asked him, “Do you see why that’s even problematic?” He replied, ‘No.’
He continues to defend his position that all Zionists “don’t deserve to live,” and sprinkles cackles and tone shifts throughout the video.
On April 25, 2024 in New York City, a rally in support of Israel will be held outside the gates of Columbia University. Supporters of Israel are reacting to the growing number of college campuses across the country where student protesters are setting up pro-Palestinian tent camps on school grounds – police threatened on Wednesday to expel the group by Friday
Arguing his logic to the university officials, James said, “I think taking someone’s life in certain scenarios is necessary and better for the entire world. Personally, I’ve never killed anyone.
“Thank the Lord no one put me in that position.”
For not the only time in the video, James goes on to compare Zionists to Hitler and Nazi soldiers, as well as to Haitian slave owners, whose slaves had to kill them “to gain their independence.”
“These were masters who were white supremacists. What is a Zionist? A white supremacist. So let’s be very clear: I’m not saying I’m going out to kill Zionists.
“What I’m saying is that if an individual who identifies as a Zionist personally threatens my physical safety, i.e. lays hands on me, I’m going to defend myself and in that case it may get to a point where I don’t know when to stop.” , he added, detailing the logic he would apply to a situation where he could potentially kill a Zionist.
“Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live.
“The same way we feel very comfortable accepting that Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, and racists don’t deserve to live. Zionists, they should not live in this world,” he said, after calling the meeting both “institutional violence” and “a joke.”
“I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for the death of those people,” he said just before the flow stopped.
According to the Daily Wire report, James appears to still be a student at the Ivy League university and a spokesperson for the Columbia University Apartheid Divest group.
On Wednesday, he publicly announced that the school had confirmed it would not call in police to break up the camp.
Khymani James, who uses he/she/them pronouns, said repeatedly during a recent livestream that Zionists don’t deserve to live and that the world would be better if they weren’t in it.
James (left) with progressive Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley – he has previously said he hopes to eventually serve in Congress
Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ on Columbia University’s West Lawn on April 24
On April 25, 2024 in New York City, a rally in support of Israel will be held outside the gates of Columbia University. Supporters of Israel respond to the growing number of college campuses across the country whose student protesters are setting up pro-Palestinian tent camps on school grounds
The Columbia encampment, which launched last week, has sparked similar demonstrations on college campuses across the country, including at Yale, Boston and Michigan universities.
On Thursday, students in Austin and SoCal also clashed with authorities trying to break up the demonstrations.
Dozens of police officers dressed in riot gear also patrolled the Columbia campus Wednesday, while security guards kept non-students from entering the campus grounds.
The NYPD gave the students 48 hours to leave the camp Wednesday morning or they could be arrested.
But defiant students have vowed to stay put as the hours extend Friday morning.
Tahia, a New York resident in her late 20s who led Wednesday’s 116 Street rally, said older protesters would also be present in surrounding streets as long as the student encampment continued.
“We are here in solidarity with the student camps in Columbia, and in full solidarity with their demands for divestment, for full financial transparency,” Tahia, who wore a keffiyeh over her hair, told DailyMail.com.
“We will be here every day for as long as the camp lasts,” she added.
“We will take to the streets for a greater demand to stop the genocide in Gaza, an end to all American funding in Israel, an end to Western complicity in Zionism.
“The fact that 40,000 Palestinians have been killed and murdered, and that the US is complicit in the 75-year occupation of the Israeli state.”
As protesters began chanting “Genocide Joe must go,” she added, “There is no way I am voting for Biden.
“I think the uncommitted vote speaks for itself.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States say the two-party system does not represent them.
“Whether it’s Biden or Trump, both parties support genocide… Biden does not represent us.”
She added that she considers Biden, Hillary Clinton and Eric Adams “war criminals.”
Khymani James is a rising senior at Columbia University with a lengthy resume in activism
An encampment protesting the genocide in Gaza enters its second day on April 23 on the grounds of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
NYPD officers watch as people demonstrate in support of Israel outside the Columbia University campus, amid the student protest camp in support of the Palestinians
Speaker Mike Johnson held a press conference in Columbia on Wednesday afternoon in support of Jewish students after describing the pro-Palestinian protests as a sign of “a disturbing rise of virulent anti-Semitism on America’s college campuses.”
During the conference, the current Speaker of the House of Representatives said that Jewish students and Israel will “never stand alone” in the United States.
Tahia rejected this characterization, telling DailyMail.com that “students are currently on the right side of history.”
“We know that we are on the side of justice and peace and we will remain on that side,” she said.