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<\/a>Columbia University Leaves Door Open for Student Who Called for Death of Zionists to Return to Campus<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nDion J. Pierre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Columbia University has denied the reapplication of a student who said Zionists do not deserve to live and are lucky he has not resorted to killing them himself but left the door open to the anti-Israel protest leader returning to campus this fall, according to documents filed in a New York court.<\/span><\/p>\n Khymani James filmed himself making the comments during the 2023-2024 academic year, a period in which Columbia students amassed in the hundreds to set up a \u201cGaza Solidarity Encampment\u201d on the New York City campus to show solidarity with Hamas<\/a> in the aftermath of the Palestinian terrorist group\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThese are all the same people. The existence of them and the projects they have built, i.e. Israel, it\u2019s all antithetical to peace. It\u2019s all antithetical to peace. And so, yes, I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die,\u201d James said in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cZionists don\u2019t deserve to live,\u201d he continued, proclaiming that people should \u201cbe grateful that I\u2019m not just going out and murdering Zionists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n James warned, \u201cI don\u2019t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser. I fight to kill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Facing criticism from lawmakers and Jewish advocacy groups over its hesitance to discipline students who perpetrated antisemitism, Columbia suspended James in April 2024, saying he would be eligible to return in the fall of 2025. In response, he sued the university<\/a>, alleging that the measure was racist and aimed at \u201cprivileging a subset of Jewish people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The suit charged twice that Columbia University favored Jews over \u201cnonJews [sic].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cJames as a person of color is squarely within a protected class of black and brown-skinned students who have been the major targets of Columbia\u2019s disciplinary actions arising from pro-Palestinian expression,\u201d the suit stated. \u201cJames has been a victim of Columbia\u2019s anti-Palestinian bias, severely punished, though not himself a Palestinian, as a supporter of the rights of Palestinian people. Third, James has been a victim of reverse discrimination, as Columbia privileges a class of self-described \u2018Zionist Jewish\u2019 people over everyone on campus who does not share their views.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Since being suspended, James has continued to endorse political violence as a means of resolving ideological disputes. In September 2024, he expressed support for the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> at Utah Valley University and called for additional killings, saying, \u201cMORE. MORE!!! \u2026 Down with all fascists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In a newly revealed letter filed in December as an exhibit in the lawsuit, Columbia refused James\u2019 request to return to campus in the fall of 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n One year later, in August 2025, Columbia again rejected his request to reenroll in a second letter filed in the lawsuit. Both letters were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYour written submissions do not demonstrate a clear understanding of the impact of your conduct,\u201d the second letter to James stated.<\/span><\/p>\n Written by a college dean whose name is still redacted from the document, it explained that James\u2019 online speech since being suspended prevented his re-enrollment, as it showed \u201cinsufficient \u2018reflection on your activities\u2019 that resulted in your suspension.\u201d The letter cited that James had defended his wish to kill Zionists while being suspended and publicly said on social media that \u201canything I said, I meant it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYour use of language tending to reaffirm those statements during your suspension raises serious concerns about your readiness to return to Columbia and engage with others appropriately,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cThat only reinforces our concerns, rather than alleviates them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n However, the university stressed that James was entitled to due process and would be \u201celigible to reapply to return\u201d for the fall 2026 semester.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou will be eligible to reapply to return for the fall 2026 semester under the conditions provided for in your Aug. 7, 2024, suspension letter,\u201d it added. \u201cIt is our hope that you will use the months ahead to engage in more substantive and careful reflection on the behaviors that led to your suspension.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The potential for James to return prompted concerns that Columbia may be reverting back to a cavalier attitude toward antisemitism<\/a>, after pledging to never again allow brazen affronts to the civil rights of Jewish students who were assaulted, harassed, intimidated on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cUniversities should take responsibility for the students they admit to their campuses,\u201d US Rep. Tim Wahlberg (R-MI), chairman of the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce, told The Algemeiner <\/em>on Friday. \u201cUnder federal civil rights law, Columbia has the duty to prevent antisemitic harassment on its campus. I expect that Columbia\u2019s incoming president will take this responsibility seriously.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Columbia\u2019s decision not to permanently expel James comes as the school continues to face scrutiny for its handling of antisemitism and pro-Hamas activism on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n This year, the university retained a professor who celebrated Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre<\/a> across southern Israel \u2014 in which the Palestinian terrorist group sexually assaulted women and men, kidnapped the elderly, and murdered children in their beds \u2014 allowing him to teach a course on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n The professor, Joseph Massad, teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history. On Oct. 8, 2023, he published an encomium to Hamas in The Electronic Intifada<\/em> which lauded the Oct. 7 atrocities as \u201castounding,\u201d \u201cawesome,\u201d \u201cincredible,\u201d and the basis of future assaults on the Jewish state. Additionally, Massad went as far as to exalt the Hamas paragliders who flew into a music festival to slaughter the young people attending it as the \u201cair force of the Palestinian resistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPerhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them,\u201d Massad wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n In July, former interim university president Claire Shipman said the institution will hire new coordinators to oversee complaints alleging civil rights violations; facilitate \u201cdeeper education on antisemitism\u201d by creating new training programs for students, faculty, and staff; and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism<\/a> \u2014 a tool that advocates say is necessary for identifying what constitutes antisemitic conduct and speech.<\/span><\/p>\n Shipman also announced new partnerships with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other Jewish groups while delivering a major blow to the anti-Zionist movement on campus by vowing never to \u201crecognize or meet with\u201d the infamous organization Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)<\/a>, a pro-Hamas campus group which had serially disrupted academic life with unauthorized, surprise demonstrations attended by non-students.<\/span><\/p>\n However, it\u2019s unclear to what extent Columbia will follow through on these initiatives under new leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n Columbia recently hired a new university president, Jennifer Mnookin. As chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mnookin struck a deal with pro-Hamas protesters that called for hiring Palestinian instructors and once issued a \u201cland acknowledgement,\u201d a hallmark of leftist ideology which fostered popular support against the higher education establishment. In 2020, she endorsed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement even as some of its supporters started riots, promoted antisemitism, and demoralized law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n Follow Dion J. Pierre @DionJPierre<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Columbia University Leaves Door Open for Student Who Called for Death of Zionists to Return to Campus Dion J. Pierre Khymani James, ex-Columbia University student who filmed himself saying Zionists should be murdered. 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