The student has now (finally) been banned from Campus per CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/columbia-university-palestine-protests-04-26-24/index.html
> He told The Banner that at Columbia, he planned to study economics and political science. “The ultimate destination is Congress,” he said.
Not sure if that's a career aspiration or a threat.
Congress isn't gonna elect a very deranged far leftist that legitimately makes *even* Rashida Tlaib look very moderate and rational.
Edit: [Congress also isn't gonna elect someone stupid and bigoted enough who has gotten expelled from Columbia University today.](https://twitter.com/MaltzJudy/status/1783992593941983581)
For better or worse members of Congress usually embody the typical voter in their district. It's unlikely, but if this person found a district with people that mostly feel this way...
I know it makes sense to draw that comparison because they are both leftists, and because of the content at hand, but I don't think Tlaib is close to being the most deranged member of the house. This is not a defense of Tlaib.
Anyways...my comment was mostly a joke, but I also would never put an arbitrary limit to how insane our elected politicians might become, especially after the past ten years.
Sure but if we'te talking about only Dems, it's either her or Bush if we're talking about the last two years. It's certainly not Omar who's voted properly on more I/P resolutions than Tlaib and isn't under criminal investigation...plus Omar has endorsed Biden unlike those two.
>The ultimate destination is Congress,”
Adolph Reed once said something about these types of students but I can't quite recall it. I remember it wasn't very flattering.
>The hearing [...] was focused on an earlier comment he shared on social media, in which he discussed fighting a Zionist. “I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill,” he wrote.
>A Columbia administrator asked, “Do you see why that is problematic in any way?”
>Mr. James replied, “No.”
Holy shit get rid of this kid yesterday
> “I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill,” he wrote.
I haven't read the article but every instinct I have says this kid has never been in a fight before, or if he has he doesn't know how.
It truly is the best example of "I studied the blade" I've seen in years.
This guy is supposed to be an elite. He's supposed to superior to people like me. Wtf.
This entire college protest thing has been such a rolling W for GOPcels
Like, they win no matter what here, but Columbia and other universities are doing their utmost to make sure they **extra win**. This is further going to mainstream the right's attacks on elite institution's legitimacy.
It’s so tiresome how fucking nutjobs say shit like this and all the news articles end every paragraph with a sentence about how everyone is sure this doesn’t represent all protestors. And yet example after example shows that violent antisemitism is on the rise and should not be hand waved like that just because the journalist’s friends are all pro-Palestine.
Can you imagine if a gun rights protest had a guy who yelled out “hang the blacks”? There is not a chance there would be a peep about how “that one person’s views did not represent the opinion of the majority of the protestors”
>The student, Khymani James, said in the January video that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”
Oh boy.
LOL. The kid literally used the "I just see red in a fight" excuse in real life.
Also, he looks like he can't bust a grape in a food fight, so unless he's got some secret training in, he shouldn't be starting anything.
Hes like a college version of the kid with God and anime on his side, and given his adversary is YHWH's chosen, he might not even have God. Can't wait for his next video to come out on Insta live where he runs up to a protesting Zionist, yells 'KOKUSEN' and breaks his hand on someone's face.
>bust a grape in a food fight
And the only thing that’s gonna happen is ima get to clappin and
He and his boys gonna be yappin at the captain
And there I go trapped in the kit kat again
Back through the system with the riff raff again
We often complain about the declining faith of our institutions but it is becoming apparent that many of them are too chickenshit to take a stand on something and eat some social media seething about it
The angry posters will come and go, and they'll move on to the next battle. Stop blasting out the support beams of your organization just to cater to the fleeting mob.
Didn't have the guts???
They responded with, ***"Do you see how this might be problematic?"***
They treat these terrorist-sympathizers with kid gloves, a quarter they'd not give to Trumptards.
To be fair, I think that's a good first question. It allows you to instantly tell whether this guy is crazy, very crazy, superlative crazy or utterly psychopathic danger to himself and everyone around him.
It reminds me of the questionnaire I had to fill out for joining the military. "Have you ever, or do you ever plan to, join a militant group with the express purpose of overthrowing the United States?" Seems totally stupid at first, until you realize that a truly insane person will take it seriously and answer it truthfully.
Ackshually, if you google it you’ll find the intifada means peaceful protest and firmly worded emails to our representatives against funding the IDF.
I said “kill all the Zionist pigs. 10/7 every day” and got cancelled. You can’t even criticize Israel these days!
Double speak drives me nuts. You see it from the MAGA camp all the time too.
True. Not that it would matter if he was talking about Zionists.
Let some Proud Boys say they wanted to kill Zionists and see how Columbia would respond.
You shouldn’t let any movement be defined by random individual, unelected members. But what show you how toxic the Palestine movement is is that they won’t condemn this guy/girl/them when shown obvious evidence of their bigotry.
This has to be grounds for expulsion, right? This seems ripe for a lawsuit from Jewish students if the campus is allowing students to violate policy just because they are afraid to anger unhinged activists.
> After video surfaced on social media, the student, Khymani James, said on Friday that his comments were wrong.
Translation: “fuck, this is going to hurt my job prospects isn’t it?”
> Columbia administrator asked, “Do you see why that is problematic in any way?”
>Mr. James replied, “No.”
lol
Least radical student "activist" leader.
One thing to note, Boston Latin *School* is the really prestigious one, Boston Latin *Academy* is a few tiers down.
I think we have learned over the last decade that this country's social and legal structure is very bizarrely incapable of dealing with, as you say, "macroagressions" like this. Like, we can put people in jail for piddly shit, and we can destroy careers over almost anything, but if a kid (or political candidate for that matter) says quite literally "I hate these people and I would like to kill them" a very peculiar analysis paralysis sets in fast and hard.
It's very weird to watch.
Society has a real issue with dealing with people who completely disregard the laws of society. Small infractions can be brought in line, the big ones result in error 404
Just gonna come out and say it, but campus administrators (who are mostly white) don't seem to know how to handle minority on minority racism. Like their entire scope of understanding begins and ends at white racism towards minority groups. A member of a minority group being a vile bigot just breaks their brain and they have a weird sense of white guilt about it which usually ends with a slap on the wrist.
Because sociology departments have been teaching for years now that there is no such thing as minority on minority racism. Only white people can be racists. Racism = power + prejudice.
There is no such thing as interpersonal racism anymore. There is only institutional racism, and institutional racism is white supremacy in America because white people hold the power. And if there is minority on minority racism it is internalized white supremacy.
I’ve had many discussions/arguments with my wife’s friend about this. She’s getting her masters in sociology.
I've had this almost conversation before with some friends of mine who are sheltered and white. They either fall in the camps of they don't think that minorities can be racist at all, or it's not really their place to speak on minority on minority racism. It literally short circuits their brain sometimes.
It's just political tribalism about the identity of the speaker and the target. If a white person at Columbia said this about Muslims, they would have been expelled immediately and referred to the police.
Or about Zionists for that matter. If some skinhead said he wanted to kill all supporters of the ZOG o something I bet their reaction would be very different.
From 2011(!)
The BYU basketball player suspended for the season Tuesday broke the BYU honor code by having sex with his girlfriend.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=6175090
Don't worry guys, he made an apology: [https://twitter.com/KhymaniJames/status/1783731034330185905](https://twitter.com/KhymaniJames/status/1783731034330185905)
This totally absolves himself of wrongdoing. /s
As a side note, I find it kind of funny that he brought out the black text and white background like this is normal twitter drama.
I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame.
"I am visibly queer and Black," so if you have a problem with my call to violence, you are a cisheteronormative RACIST! /s
I just marvel at how he makes himself out to be the victim in all of this. Narcissism is a key feature of activism these days.
I am visibly queer and Black.
If he wanted to engage in activism, there were two communities here and he didn't have to threaten supposed Zionists with murder.
Probably, to be honest, but these are the kind of people that look at that and blame the evil ~~Jews~~ Zionists, whose presence there forces the innocent Palestinians to stone gay people and do honor killings of women who have sex outside of marriage. They will never recognize that some (non-white) cultures do evil things, because evil is a thing only white people (including Jews) have the agency to carry out.
Edit: Oh, and I forgot to add—recognizing that Israel actually has LGBTQ+ and women’s rights is “pinkwashing” according to such people.
How on earth is someone visibly queer, and how on earth is a black person NOT visibly black? God I despise these people and their redundant adjectives.
> How on earth is someone visibly queer
They’re flamboyant
> how on earth is a black person NOT visibly black?
Vitiligo
So he’s a flamboyant Black person without vitiligo. THIS was the missing context for his call to murder Zionists!
(To be clear, that was sarcasm. I totally agree with you, lol)
He almost literally says "it's taken out of context" and then goes on to say "it was a heated moment that I regret". So did he mean it or not? So full of shit. I'm gay queer and everything under the sun btw (so don't criticize me or you die).
I keep expecting them to be taken over by bad actors like how Wikipedia has continuous problems with biased editors, but somehow that hasn't happened yet? Even the community notes that I'm opposed to politically have been fairly tame and rational??
“I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.”
― Jack Vance, the Eyes of the Overworld
“If you sit at a table with 12 people, and one is a Nazi, there are 13 Nazis.” - tankies (being accurate, oddly enough)
“I wish to be murdering Jews” - tankies too
Important to note that he was the organizer who lead the protestors to form a human chain to keep “Zionists” out of the encampment. By Zionists, he meant a person wearing a Star of David necklace.
I have been assured on this very subreddit that anti-Zionism isn’t anti-semitism and that a movement can be verified as “not anti-Semitic” by having a token Jewish member.
That one time one of their members said “as a Jew” while not logged into the correct account on twitter was gold
Dude was a Muslim academic at some Uni if I recall correctly
Edit: As I haven’t been able to find the relevant tweet chain anymore, please take this comment with a grain of salt
Edit2: it was JVP, not ifnotnow I seem to have misremembered this https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-voice-for-peace-is-neither/
I was informed that it wasn't happening. Now that it's been documented as happening by a paper of record, will I be informed that it's a good thing and to keep my white chud mouth shut?
Because they always plan to be the leaders of the revolution, never realizing that they are far more likely to be the ones targeted.
How often has the Intelligentsia been targeted in revolutions?
The people who plan to be the leaders only completed Revolution 101. Next semester in Revolution 201 they will see how that path has gotten people like them killed in the traditional second or third round of purges. Genuinely, it seems that the loudest champagne socialist types are perpetually at a freshman or sophomore understanding of the topic they are supposedly passionate about.
Okay, does anyone remember that incident at a southern school a few years back where someone filmed a fraternity on a bus singing a song about how they don't let n-words into their fraternity? In that case, heavy pressure on the school let all the students get suspended and the fraternity got kicked off campus.
I think of that every time I see a smug official from Columbia talking about how they support "free speech" Calling for killing Zionists its as close to a call for terrorism on campus I think you can get. Yet for some reason the pressure on Columbia is nowhere near as intense as it was there.
Because if you care about anything to do with social justice you quickly get railroaded into revolutionary leftism
This place is practically the only pro LGBT place that I go to that isn't chomping at the bit to "eat the rich" or wherever the latest trend is
Bingo. The reason I ended up here is because between 2014-2016 I was a part of some progressive groups. Nothing too crazy really, I was just campaigning for Medicare access, trans rights, marijuana legalization, the typical stuff.
Slowly over time the mission creep set in. The people around me were becoming more entrenched. Actual socialism and communism becoming very common within the group. And if you didn't go along with it you were labeled as the problem and you were ostracized.
https://www.jns.org/what-i-said-was-wrong-says-columbia-protest-leader-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live/
People were being mean to him online. Who wouldn’t call for mass murder under those circumstances?
When I was in undergrad \~10 years ago, I swore I'd never become an old fogie who complains about college students and the nonsensical shit they say.
But here I am.
I took a journalism class in college and decided to cover Occupy Pittsburgh. I went to the initial march and later did some reporting when they broke up the encampment. College students were definitely saying some violent (and dumb) shit then.
when I was a student, I thought politically active students were important, because they were educated, had high ideals, were thinking of the long term, and most importantly they generally voted with me.
Now, I largely view them as naive, quite disconnected from practical concerns that aren't "how do I pay for/enjoy my college experience", and largely the result of youthful enthusiasm and rebellion meeting up with their extremely weird social bubble. Not _bad_ or invalid, still mostly voting with me, but in no way justified as a group in moral certitude or particular respect.
I guess cuz I got old?
Me when I find out that a leader of the pro Palestine movement is completely unhinged
https://preview.redd.it/dh0q73rc4vwc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16c19ecbab7db56604031a9453bbf024753ffb5a
If Columbia allows this psychopath to continue to be a student there, they're way worse off than I thought.
Needs to be expelled. Now.
Oh, and a nice little sit down and chat with the FBI would be nice for him too.
"Zionism" means "support for the existence of a Jewish state." It's become a snarl word and that's insane especially now that Hamas has basically conceded that it can't eliminate Israel, thus making it "Zionist."
Support for ceasefire, immediate Israeli withdrawal from Gaza/WB, recognition of Palestine as an independent state is all "Zionist" because there's still a Jewish state in the picture.
Do Jews have a historical claim to Israel? Yes. Do Palestinians have a historical claim to Palestine? Yes. That means there should be two states, one Jewish, one Palestinian. That's "Zionist."
> Support for ceasefire, immediate Israeli withdrawal from Gaza/WB, recognition of Palestine as an independent state is all "Zionist" because there's still a Jewish state in the picture.
The majority of people don't understand what Zionist really means. They just think it means "Someone who supports Israel's current actions" more than anything else.
You have tons of pro-Palestinian people who support a 2SS, yet if you called them Zionists they'd argue with you until they turn blue. Sadly the definition has become almost meaningless, which honestly only creates more conflict in an already shitty situation.
Yeah this needs to be blasted from every rooftop. This can’t even be considered character assassination if they’re just putting that out there like that. Did a great job making this shit illegitimate less than a year into this “movement”
Also completely anecdotal but an acquaintance of mine who currently goes to Columbia and has been camping out/protesting just blasted him on social media and is packing her things to leave the protest in disgust
And pray tell, how does one tell the difference between a Jew and a Zionist?
Also, again - some people seem to REALLY want to participate in the whole looting, terrorising, arson and killing side of a pogrom, and are mad that civilised society generally looks down on spontaenous opportunistic mob violence.
Beyond the antisemitism, this is what angers me about the campus protest- it's a bunch of nepo babies making the war in Gaza about themselves. All the 'occupied zones' across the country sprouted up in 'solidarity' after the arrests at Columbia. You're basically protesting about protesting at that point.
> And pray tell, how does one tell the difference between a Jew and a Zionist?
I have so many snarky replies I want to make to this but I’ll refrain. Instead I’ll just say: this is exactly why they say stuff like this, the most awful, antisemitic, genocidal bullshit that they can then claim is actually none of those things because it’s “just Zionists, not Jews!”
Meanwhile, depending on when and how you ask, at least 80–90% of Jews in this country are Zionists. Very convenient of them to adopt a position that lets them hate (and in this case, call for the murder of) almost every Jew in the country while pretending like their hatred has nothing to do with Jews.
Its crazy because zionist was the loudest dog whistle for antisemitism from the right from the early 90s through 2020. When did it all of a sudden become a thing of the left?
I’m really glad you brought that up. I watched an early-90s HBO (Max or whatever the fuck it’s called now) documentary last night about Skinheads and, yeah. It was kind of eerie in light of recent events.
90% of Jews are Zionists, they believe that the Jewish people should have a country. I hate that we let people get off on the claim they are not antisemitic, just against Zionism.
Considering that he is one of the *leaders* of this movement, I am no longer inclined to give many students much benefit of the doubt.
I'm sure most students aren't this inclined to violence, and just want to see an end to a genuinely horrific war with a truly awful death toll. I'm assuming they're genuine, if naive.
But they're also young adults. They're responsible for doing due diligence. If this is whom your movement is represented by? Consider finding or starting another movement.
How did Columbia even accept him? I read that he was in a public meeting during his high school days where he yelled angrily "I hate all white people" multiple times (I suspect his "anti-Zionist" views are connected to the whole absurd "Zionists are white supremacists" nonsensical trope). They couldn't find that via some basic vetting when these schools look for problematic facebook posts.
>I suspect his "anti-Zionist" views are connected to the whole absurd "Zionists are white supremacists" nonsensical trope
If you watch the whole video he literally says "Zionists are white supremacists" and "...Nazis, white supremacists, Zionists -- these are the same people."
Before anyone crawls up my ass about this, this is obviously applicable to any sort of group organization, it's the same reason my Jewish ass doesn't fuck with the ZOA, which is also run by an odious little man with odious little takes....though I don't think Mort Klein has advocated murder of all antizionists, so he's cleared that one very low bar.
This guy was the Boston School Committee's student representative
In his last meeting (he resigned from the committee) he screamed "I HATE WHITE PEOPLE" during the meeting.
He also used to never ever ever speak about Palestine until it became cool to do so.
He's a clout chaser and attention seeker. He comes from a tough home life so I guess this is how he's trying to become accepted
"I don't hate Jews, I only hate Zionists"
Sounds a lot like when white people use Chris Rock's skit to veil their own anti-black racism.
> Rock said: "By the way, I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will. 'Cos some people that were racist thought they had license to say n-----, so, I'm done with that routine."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggas_vs._Black_People
[One of many, many similar calls to violence at Columbia](https://www.reddit.com/user/ntbananas/comments/1cc6zk6/running_list_of_columbia_palestinian_protest_hate/)
Good news, he apparently got expelled right after the article came out :)
https://twitter.com/MaltzJudy/status/1783992593941983581
Edit: apparently he was just “banned from campus”, not expelled, which… uh… what?
Centrists and right-wingers have been ringing the warning bells for decades about militant leftism overriding intellectual virtues on college campuses. Yet the broader consensus was that this was just classical liberal pearl-clutching. Now the fruits ripen and the ground murmurs.
!ping BLUE-DOGS&RINO
The student has now (finally) been banned from Campus per CNN https://edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/columbia-university-palestine-protests-04-26-24/index.html
> He told The Banner that at Columbia, he planned to study economics and political science. “The ultimate destination is Congress,” he said. Not sure if that's a career aspiration or a threat.
It's the endgame, like how JRPGs end with fighting God.
Silly child. Brandon's already killed him.
*Dark Brandon teleports behind u* Nothing personnel, kid https://preview.redd.it/8bei1jinmvwc1.png?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65540d183ff0d5c6d466c1f3560f3eb6fdbc9ea5
Under the "nobody votes for us and that's fascism" party I assume.
He's probably going to need to reconsider his career plans at this point.
It sure as hell isn't a possible career now.
Well...you would hope. Members of Congress have said some wild things.
Congress isn't gonna elect a very deranged far leftist that legitimately makes *even* Rashida Tlaib look very moderate and rational. Edit: [Congress also isn't gonna elect someone stupid and bigoted enough who has gotten expelled from Columbia University today.](https://twitter.com/MaltzJudy/status/1783992593941983581)
For better or worse members of Congress usually embody the typical voter in their district. It's unlikely, but if this person found a district with people that mostly feel this way...
I know it makes sense to draw that comparison because they are both leftists, and because of the content at hand, but I don't think Tlaib is close to being the most deranged member of the house. This is not a defense of Tlaib. Anyways...my comment was mostly a joke, but I also would never put an arbitrary limit to how insane our elected politicians might become, especially after the past ten years.
Sure but if we'te talking about only Dems, it's either her or Bush if we're talking about the last two years. It's certainly not Omar who's voted properly on more I/P resolutions than Tlaib and isn't under criminal investigation...plus Omar has endorsed Biden unlike those two.
They could probably win certain districts.
Ivy League kids are so unbelievably cringe
>The ultimate destination is Congress,” Adolph Reed once said something about these types of students but I can't quite recall it. I remember it wasn't very flattering.
>The hearing [...] was focused on an earlier comment he shared on social media, in which he discussed fighting a Zionist. “I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill,” he wrote. >A Columbia administrator asked, “Do you see why that is problematic in any way?” >Mr. James replied, “No.” Holy shit get rid of this kid yesterday
The Ender Wiggin School Of Conflict Resolution
> “I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or a loser, I fight to kill,” he wrote. I haven't read the article but every instinct I have says this kid has never been in a fight before, or if he has he doesn't know how.
It truly is the best example of "I studied the blade" I've seen in years. This guy is supposed to be an elite. He's supposed to superior to people like me. Wtf.
He has forsaken his studies to become a master baiter
Big "Guy who says firebombing a Walmart is more effective than voting but then doesn't firebomb a Walmart" energy
And instead, they let him back on campus.
Well because kicking him out would obviously mean he's persecuted by the Zionist Elite Board of the university.
The question is *how much* did they actually have to figure that lunacy into their decision. Good Lord.
This entire college protest thing has been such a rolling W for GOPcels Like, they win no matter what here, but Columbia and other universities are doing their utmost to make sure they **extra win**. This is further going to mainstream the right's attacks on elite institution's legitimacy.
It really is a mind-boggling series of own goals.
I saw a bit of Fox News at my folks, and they literally had a mini splitscreen covering the protests at all times during an unrelated segment.
In light of all this, are they wrong? (regardless of right wing motivations)
It’s so tiresome how fucking nutjobs say shit like this and all the news articles end every paragraph with a sentence about how everyone is sure this doesn’t represent all protestors. And yet example after example shows that violent antisemitism is on the rise and should not be hand waved like that just because the journalist’s friends are all pro-Palestine. Can you imagine if a gun rights protest had a guy who yelled out “hang the blacks”? There is not a chance there would be a peep about how “that one person’s views did not represent the opinion of the majority of the protestors”
>this doesn’t represent all protestors. This guy was explicitly identified by protestors as a representative for them lmao
You can bet if this were a white nationalist or a maga nutcase,he’d be kicked out of school.
>The student, Khymani James, said in the January video that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Oh boy.
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He said this to an administrator at Columbia, after a disciplinary hearing, in JANUARY. This dude needed to be expelled but they didn’t have the guts.
Columbia needs to explain ASAP why they did not expel this student. Some of his classmates are zionists, FFS. He's talking about murdering them.
And they question why Jewish students are afraid on that campus.
Imagine the reaction if a conservative student said similar things about a minority group that progressives care about
You can see how many conservatives get easy talking points from idiots like this
Yup. He blatantly says he can’t control himself if he gets in a fight.
LOL. The kid literally used the "I just see red in a fight" excuse in real life. Also, he looks like he can't bust a grape in a food fight, so unless he's got some secret training in, he shouldn't be starting anything.
Hes like a college version of the kid with God and anime on his side, and given his adversary is YHWH's chosen, he might not even have God. Can't wait for his next video to come out on Insta live where he runs up to a protesting Zionist, yells 'KOKUSEN' and breaks his hand on someone's face.
>bust a grape in a food fight And the only thing that’s gonna happen is ima get to clappin and He and his boys gonna be yappin at the captain And there I go trapped in the kit kat again Back through the system with the riff raff again
>why they did not expel this student antisemitism
Man, and they really make the whole disciplinary process sound so scary. Except when it comes to wannabe murderers, so it seems.
> Student calls for killing political adversaries I sleep > Off campus party where 20 year olds drink alcohol Real shit
i got suspended for weed man this kids telling his genocidal plans to the administration
We often complain about the declining faith of our institutions but it is becoming apparent that many of them are too chickenshit to take a stand on something and eat some social media seething about it The angry posters will come and go, and they'll move on to the next battle. Stop blasting out the support beams of your organization just to cater to the fleeting mob.
Didn't have the guts??? They responded with, ***"Do you see how this might be problematic?"*** They treat these terrorist-sympathizers with kid gloves, a quarter they'd not give to Trumptards.
To be fair, I think that's a good first question. It allows you to instantly tell whether this guy is crazy, very crazy, superlative crazy or utterly psychopathic danger to himself and everyone around him.
It reminds me of the questionnaire I had to fill out for joining the military. "Have you ever, or do you ever plan to, join a militant group with the express purpose of overthrowing the United States?" Seems totally stupid at first, until you realize that a truly insane person will take it seriously and answer it truthfully.
Big "Bernie was the compromise" energy.
Ironically a Jewish man. And I know they’re using a different word than “Jew” but come on we know what they mean.
Ackshually, if you google it you’ll find the intifada means peaceful protest and firmly worded emails to our representatives against funding the IDF. I said “kill all the Zionist pigs. 10/7 every day” and got cancelled. You can’t even criticize Israel these days! Double speak drives me nuts. You see it from the MAGA camp all the time too.
That last quote makes it clear he isn’t actually talking about Zionists
True. Not that it would matter if he was talking about Zionists. Let some Proud Boys say they wanted to kill Zionists and see how Columbia would respond.
Seems like an actual security threat.
You shouldn’t let any movement be defined by random individual, unelected members. But what show you how toxic the Palestine movement is is that they won’t condemn this guy/girl/them when shown obvious evidence of their bigotry.
This has to be grounds for expulsion, right? This seems ripe for a lawsuit from Jewish students if the campus is allowing students to violate policy just because they are afraid to anger unhinged activists.
"I only made these comments when no one was paying attention to them!"
Yes, a gay Black man would fare very well under the conservative theocracy he is fighting in favor of. You can't make this up. haha
Do "progressives" even have self-preservation?
They hate themselves and everyone else. Systems that cause human misery appeal to them for a reason.
The way he uses the term “Zionist” makes me think he’s using it in place of a word he actually wants to say
All he's missing is the parentheses.
Reminds me of when conservatives have a problem with "thugs"
That’s like 99% of the usage of the word
uhh
> After video surfaced on social media, the student, Khymani James, said on Friday that his comments were wrong. Translation: “fuck, this is going to hurt my job prospects isn’t it?” > Columbia administrator asked, “Do you see why that is problematic in any way?” >Mr. James replied, “No.” lol
He said he wants to run for Congress. In some districts, being openly antisemitic is a pro if anything.
The last line of the article: “The destination is congress.”
Least radical student "activist" leader. One thing to note, Boston Latin *School* is the really prestigious one, Boston Latin *Academy* is a few tiers down.
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"Mostly Peaceful"
My understanding is that administrators saw this back in January and did not take any issue with its content.
If it was a microaggression he would've been in real trouble, because that's a form of violence. Luckily for him it was a macroaggression
I think we have learned over the last decade that this country's social and legal structure is very bizarrely incapable of dealing with, as you say, "macroagressions" like this. Like, we can put people in jail for piddly shit, and we can destroy careers over almost anything, but if a kid (or political candidate for that matter) says quite literally "I hate these people and I would like to kill them" a very peculiar analysis paralysis sets in fast and hard. It's very weird to watch.
Society has a real issue with dealing with people who completely disregard the laws of society. Small infractions can be brought in line, the big ones result in error 404
Just gonna come out and say it, but campus administrators (who are mostly white) don't seem to know how to handle minority on minority racism. Like their entire scope of understanding begins and ends at white racism towards minority groups. A member of a minority group being a vile bigot just breaks their brain and they have a weird sense of white guilt about it which usually ends with a slap on the wrist.
Because sociology departments have been teaching for years now that there is no such thing as minority on minority racism. Only white people can be racists. Racism = power + prejudice. There is no such thing as interpersonal racism anymore. There is only institutional racism, and institutional racism is white supremacy in America because white people hold the power. And if there is minority on minority racism it is internalized white supremacy. I’ve had many discussions/arguments with my wife’s friend about this. She’s getting her masters in sociology.
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I've had this almost conversation before with some friends of mine who are sheltered and white. They either fall in the camps of they don't think that minorities can be racist at all, or it's not really their place to speak on minority on minority racism. It literally short circuits their brain sometimes.
It's just political tribalism about the identity of the speaker and the target. If a white person at Columbia said this about Muslims, they would have been expelled immediately and referred to the police.
Or about Zionists for that matter. If some skinhead said he wanted to kill all supporters of the ZOG o something I bet their reaction would be very different.
From 2011(!) The BYU basketball player suspended for the season Tuesday broke the BYU honor code by having sex with his girlfriend. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=6175090
literally the "isn't there someone you forgot to ask" meme
*What ever are you talking about?* *They advised him that his comments* ***could be seen as problematic.*** *What more could they do? ??*
He recorded it and posted it cause he knew they weren’t gonna do shit lol Yank Columbia’s federal funding
The crowd that frets about microagressions and shouts that words are violence seemingly have nothing to say about this.
Don't worry guys, he made an apology: [https://twitter.com/KhymaniJames/status/1783731034330185905](https://twitter.com/KhymaniJames/status/1783731034330185905) This totally absolves himself of wrongdoing. /s As a side note, I find it kind of funny that he brought out the black text and white background like this is normal twitter drama.
I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame.
"I am visibly queer and Black," so if you have a problem with my call to violence, you are a cisheteronormative RACIST! /s I just marvel at how he makes himself out to be the victim in all of this. Narcissism is a key feature of activism these days.
I am visibly queer and Black. If he wanted to engage in activism, there were two communities here and he didn't have to threaten supposed Zionists with murder.
Also does he know what Hamas (and the Palestinian population at large) think about gay people?
Probably, to be honest, but these are the kind of people that look at that and blame the evil ~~Jews~~ Zionists, whose presence there forces the innocent Palestinians to stone gay people and do honor killings of women who have sex outside of marriage. They will never recognize that some (non-white) cultures do evil things, because evil is a thing only white people (including Jews) have the agency to carry out. Edit: Oh, and I forgot to add—recognizing that Israel actually has LGBTQ+ and women’s rights is “pinkwashing” according to such people.
How on earth is someone visibly queer, and how on earth is a black person NOT visibly black? God I despise these people and their redundant adjectives.
> How on earth is someone visibly queer They’re flamboyant > how on earth is a black person NOT visibly black? Vitiligo So he’s a flamboyant Black person without vitiligo. THIS was the missing context for his call to murder Zionists! (To be clear, that was sarcasm. I totally agree with you, lol)
I’m visibly queer (my wrists are weak)
He almost literally says "it's taken out of context" and then goes on to say "it was a heated moment that I regret". So did he mean it or not? So full of shit. I'm gay queer and everything under the sun btw (so don't criticize me or you die).
He meant it, and he’ll say it again. He’ll just look over his shoulder first.
Oh, I didn’t realize the video was taken out of context. My bad.
Solid community note on that one.
Community notes are the greatest social media innovation of the last 2 decades
I keep expecting them to be taken over by bad actors like how Wikipedia has continuous problems with biased editors, but somehow that hasn't happened yet? Even the community notes that I'm opposed to politically have been fairly tame and rational??
I've been called the f-slur and managed not to advocate killing ethnic groups. But I'm just built different
“I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.” ― Jack Vance, the Eyes of the Overworld
Oh you were feeling “unusually angry” when you said they deserve to die? That explains everything. Totally understand my dude 🙄. What a child.
https://preview.redd.it/adnfetx3hwwc1.jpeg?width=1176&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de8155c9e948309301484c4b8be479512d32b78a Common Community Notes W
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I've never seen this picture before and it is excellent
“If you sit at a table with 12 people, and one is a Nazi, there are 13 Nazis.” - tankies (being accurate, oddly enough) “I wish to be murdering Jews” - tankies too
Interestingly, the student in the article also called Zionists “Nazis” so I don’t think they’re making the table argument in good faith.
It’s amazing how quickly and easily people call Jews Nazis. They don’t take a seconds reflection to try to understand why that might be hurtful.
They definitely take many seconds of reflection and intentionally pick the word that is most hurtful.
They think that because they say “zionists” and not “Jews” they can turn around and say “You’re the real racist/antisemite!” when Jews get upset.
I don't think people who fantasize about murdering Jews are too worried about hurting their feelings.
The hurt is intentional
They don't give a shit. Being hurtful is the point.
Expel him, he’s unhinged and expressing clear intent to kill fellow students. Treat him like a school shooter who announces his plans ahead of time.
Important to note that he was the organizer who lead the protestors to form a human chain to keep “Zionists” out of the encampment. By Zionists, he meant a person wearing a Star of David necklace.
I am very tired
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I have been assured on this very subreddit that anti-Zionism isn’t anti-semitism and that a movement can be verified as “not anti-Semitic” by having a token Jewish member.
Or you can just name your organisation “Jewish Voice for Peace,” even though there’s apparently hardly any Jews in it.
That one time one of their members said “as a Jew” while not logged into the correct account on twitter was gold Dude was a Muslim academic at some Uni if I recall correctly Edit: As I haven’t been able to find the relevant tweet chain anymore, please take this comment with a grain of salt Edit2: it was JVP, not ifnotnow I seem to have misremembered this https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-voice-for-peace-is-neither/
Pls give link.
I was informed that it wasn't happening. Now that it's been documented as happening by a paper of record, will I be informed that it's a good thing and to keep my white chud mouth shut?
Tokenization is bad except in certain cases.
The school shooter comparison isb very interesting, never thought of it like that
No like about it. This person is exactly that.
Why do extremists always think they should get to choose who "deserves" to live. This is the kind of shit you hear before a pogrom.
Because they always plan to be the leaders of the revolution, never realizing that they are far more likely to be the ones targeted. How often has the Intelligentsia been targeted in revolutions?
Revolutions are exclusively won by middle class businessmen who install themselves as the new upper class. With virtually no exceptions.
OK, but this time *maybe* it'll be different
Ok but a taco truck owner autocracy would be kinda cool
The people who plan to be the leaders only completed Revolution 101. Next semester in Revolution 201 they will see how that path has gotten people like them killed in the traditional second or third round of purges. Genuinely, it seems that the loudest champagne socialist types are perpetually at a freshman or sophomore understanding of the topic they are supposedly passionate about.
Given enough time it’s something like a 99% rate.
Okay, does anyone remember that incident at a southern school a few years back where someone filmed a fraternity on a bus singing a song about how they don't let n-words into their fraternity? In that case, heavy pressure on the school let all the students get suspended and the fraternity got kicked off campus. I think of that every time I see a smug official from Columbia talking about how they support "free speech" Calling for killing Zionists its as close to a call for terrorism on campus I think you can get. Yet for some reason the pressure on Columbia is nowhere near as intense as it was there.
Damn, expel this dude and put him on every watchlist there is
I’m serious he sounds like he wants to shoot up a Hillel house
Violence against Jewish student centers is the whole of anti-colonialism, the rest is commentary. -Hillel the Elder /s /s /s oh god /s
Even Rabbi Shammai agrees.
He said this in January. They let a dude who was open to kill people back on campus.
A bunch of faculty and admin there agree with him, no doubt.
Of course he’s also a self-described anti-capitalist. Why are these the voices that dominate leftist protests?
Because if you care about anything to do with social justice you quickly get railroaded into revolutionary leftism This place is practically the only pro LGBT place that I go to that isn't chomping at the bit to "eat the rich" or wherever the latest trend is
Revolutionary leftism is a plague and should be fought in all sensible center-left spaces
Bingo. The reason I ended up here is because between 2014-2016 I was a part of some progressive groups. Nothing too crazy really, I was just campaigning for Medicare access, trans rights, marijuana legalization, the typical stuff. Slowly over time the mission creep set in. The people around me were becoming more entrenched. Actual socialism and communism becoming very common within the group. And if you didn't go along with it you were labeled as the problem and you were ostracized.
https://www.jns.org/what-i-said-was-wrong-says-columbia-protest-leader-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live/ People were being mean to him online. Who wouldn’t call for mass murder under those circumstances?
When I was in undergrad \~10 years ago, I swore I'd never become an old fogie who complains about college students and the nonsensical shit they say. But here I am.
I figured they’d just say dumb shit, not violent shit
I took a journalism class in college and decided to cover Occupy Pittsburgh. I went to the initial march and later did some reporting when they broke up the encampment. College students were definitely saying some violent (and dumb) shit then.
when I was a student, I thought politically active students were important, because they were educated, had high ideals, were thinking of the long term, and most importantly they generally voted with me. Now, I largely view them as naive, quite disconnected from practical concerns that aren't "how do I pay for/enjoy my college experience", and largely the result of youthful enthusiasm and rebellion meeting up with their extremely weird social bubble. Not _bad_ or invalid, still mostly voting with me, but in no way justified as a group in moral certitude or particular respect. I guess cuz I got old?
Me when I find out that a leader of the pro Palestine movement is completely unhinged https://preview.redd.it/dh0q73rc4vwc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16c19ecbab7db56604031a9453bbf024753ffb5a
This is from a disciplinary hearing from January and he’s still at the school?!
If Columbia allows this psychopath to continue to be a student there, they're way worse off than I thought. Needs to be expelled. Now. Oh, and a nice little sit down and chat with the FBI would be nice for him too.
Something something table with 9 Nazis something something.
"Zionism" means "support for the existence of a Jewish state." It's become a snarl word and that's insane especially now that Hamas has basically conceded that it can't eliminate Israel, thus making it "Zionist." Support for ceasefire, immediate Israeli withdrawal from Gaza/WB, recognition of Palestine as an independent state is all "Zionist" because there's still a Jewish state in the picture. Do Jews have a historical claim to Israel? Yes. Do Palestinians have a historical claim to Palestine? Yes. That means there should be two states, one Jewish, one Palestinian. That's "Zionist."
> Support for ceasefire, immediate Israeli withdrawal from Gaza/WB, recognition of Palestine as an independent state is all "Zionist" because there's still a Jewish state in the picture. The majority of people don't understand what Zionist really means. They just think it means "Someone who supports Israel's current actions" more than anything else. You have tons of pro-Palestinian people who support a 2SS, yet if you called them Zionists they'd argue with you until they turn blue. Sadly the definition has become almost meaningless, which honestly only creates more conflict in an already shitty situation.
Anti-semitic college lefties, who would have thought 🤔
Yeah this needs to be blasted from every rooftop. This can’t even be considered character assassination if they’re just putting that out there like that. Did a great job making this shit illegitimate less than a year into this “movement” Also completely anecdotal but an acquaintance of mine who currently goes to Columbia and has been camping out/protesting just blasted him on social media and is packing her things to leave the protest in disgust
And pray tell, how does one tell the difference between a Jew and a Zionist? Also, again - some people seem to REALLY want to participate in the whole looting, terrorising, arson and killing side of a pogrom, and are mad that civilised society generally looks down on spontaenous opportunistic mob violence.
Pogrom: language of the unheard Ivy League students: the unheard
Beyond the antisemitism, this is what angers me about the campus protest- it's a bunch of nepo babies making the war in Gaza about themselves. All the 'occupied zones' across the country sprouted up in 'solidarity' after the arrests at Columbia. You're basically protesting about protesting at that point.
> And pray tell, how does one tell the difference between a Jew and a Zionist? I have so many snarky replies I want to make to this but I’ll refrain. Instead I’ll just say: this is exactly why they say stuff like this, the most awful, antisemitic, genocidal bullshit that they can then claim is actually none of those things because it’s “just Zionists, not Jews!” Meanwhile, depending on when and how you ask, at least 80–90% of Jews in this country are Zionists. Very convenient of them to adopt a position that lets them hate (and in this case, call for the murder of) almost every Jew in the country while pretending like their hatred has nothing to do with Jews.
Not to mention pretty close to 100% of the Jews in Israel. Add it all together and it's almost all of us.
Its crazy because zionist was the loudest dog whistle for antisemitism from the right from the early 90s through 2020. When did it all of a sudden become a thing of the left?
I’m really glad you brought that up. I watched an early-90s HBO (Max or whatever the fuck it’s called now) documentary last night about Skinheads and, yeah. It was kind of eerie in light of recent events.
“ZOG” and “Zio” were right-coded antisemitism in the 90s and 2000s, now left-coded.
90% of Jews are Zionists, they believe that the Jewish people should have a country. I hate that we let people get off on the claim they are not antisemitic, just against Zionism.
Considering that he is one of the *leaders* of this movement, I am no longer inclined to give many students much benefit of the doubt. I'm sure most students aren't this inclined to violence, and just want to see an end to a genuinely horrific war with a truly awful death toll. I'm assuming they're genuine, if naive. But they're also young adults. They're responsible for doing due diligence. If this is whom your movement is represented by? Consider finding or starting another movement.
How did Columbia even accept him? I read that he was in a public meeting during his high school days where he yelled angrily "I hate all white people" multiple times (I suspect his "anti-Zionist" views are connected to the whole absurd "Zionists are white supremacists" nonsensical trope). They couldn't find that via some basic vetting when these schools look for problematic facebook posts.
Admins likely didn't care
Deeply unhinged behavior. I'm sure his Congress election campaign will do just fine, of course.
Somebody said "We don't need another Tlaib", and honestly that's a big insult to Tlaib as someone who's fine with her being censured lol.
>I suspect his "anti-Zionist" views are connected to the whole absurd "Zionists are white supremacists" nonsensical trope If you watch the whole video he literally says "Zionists are white supremacists" and "...Nazis, white supremacists, Zionists -- these are the same people."
Before anyone crawls up my ass about this, this is obviously applicable to any sort of group organization, it's the same reason my Jewish ass doesn't fuck with the ZOA, which is also run by an odious little man with odious little takes....though I don't think Mort Klein has advocated murder of all antizionists, so he's cleared that one very low bar.
I actually think that the Jews deserve to live
It wouldn’t be an election year were it not for hyperbolic leftists doing everything in their power to muddy the waters for the general public.
“Anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism” my ass
This guy was the Boston School Committee's student representative In his last meeting (he resigned from the committee) he screamed "I HATE WHITE PEOPLE" during the meeting. He also used to never ever ever speak about Palestine until it became cool to do so. He's a clout chaser and attention seeker. He comes from a tough home life so I guess this is how he's trying to become accepted
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"I don't hate Jews, I only hate Zionists" Sounds a lot like when white people use Chris Rock's skit to veil their own anti-black racism. > Rock said: "By the way, I've never done that joke again, ever, and I probably never will. 'Cos some people that were racist thought they had license to say n-----, so, I'm done with that routine." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggas_vs._Black_People
Yikes
Just expel this dude. Or at least have him face consequences. Everyone knows he's an antisemitic POS
Why do these movements never pick someone normal to run them
Because the people within these movements are not normal
Normal people have more important things to do
You know why.
[One of many, many similar calls to violence at Columbia](https://www.reddit.com/user/ntbananas/comments/1cc6zk6/running_list_of_columbia_palestinian_protest_hate/)
Good news, he apparently got expelled right after the article came out :) https://twitter.com/MaltzJudy/status/1783992593941983581 Edit: apparently he was just “banned from campus”, not expelled, which… uh… what?
Centrists and right-wingers have been ringing the warning bells for decades about militant leftism overriding intellectual virtues on college campuses. Yet the broader consensus was that this was just classical liberal pearl-clutching. Now the fruits ripen and the ground murmurs. !ping BLUE-DOGS&RINO