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A Columbia student with a lengthy resume in the art of protesting has posted a livestream of himself in which he stated that 'Zionists don't deserve to live.'
Rising Columbia University senior Khymani James, who uses 'he/she/they' pronouns, is currently one of the leaders of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that has overtaken the New York City school's campus.
In a recording of the stream posted to X by Daily Wire journalist Kassy Akiva, James meets with employees of Columbia's Center for Student Success and Intervention over an Instagram post of his that warned Zionists in his DMs that he 'fights to kill.'
An employee asked him: 'Do you see why that's problematic in any way?' He responded: 'No.'
He continues to defend his position, that all Zionists 'don't deserve to live,' sprinkling off-putting cackles and tone shifts throughout the video.
A rally in support of Israel is held outside the gates of Columbia University on April 25, 2024 in New York City. Israel supporters are reacting to the growing number of college campuses throughout the country whose student protesters are setting up pro-Palestinian tent encampments on school ground - police threatened Wednesday to evict the group by Friday
Reasoning through his logic to the university employees, James said: 'I think that taking someone’s life in certain case scenarios is necessary and better for the overall world. I personally have never killed anyone.
'Thank the lord that no one has put me in that position.'
For not the only time in the video, James then compares Zionists to Hitler and Nazi soldiers, as well as Haitian slave owners, whose slaves had to kill them 'in order to gain their independence.
'These were masters who were white supremacists. What is a Zionist? A white supremacist. So let’s be very clear here, I’m not saying that I’m going to go out and start killing Zionists.
'What I am saying is that if an individual who identifies as a Zionist threatens my physical safety in person, i.e., puts their hands on me, I am going to defend myself and in that case scenario, it may come to a point where I don’t know when to stop,' he added, narrating the logic he would apply to a situation in which he might, potentially kill a Zionist.
'Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live.
'The same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live. Zionists, they shouldn’t live in this world,' he said, after calling the meeting both 'institutional violence' and 'a joke.'
'I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die,' he said just before the stream ends.
According to the Daily Wire's 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 will not call law enforcement to break up the encampment.
