( The Hill ) — Columbia University has banned the student protest leader, who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” from the campus, a university spokesperson confirmed to The Hill Friday.
Khymani James, the organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at the school, also said in a video that recently resurfaced from earlier this year that people should “be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” That comment came around the same time he met with school officials over a social media post he wrote about 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 at the time.
James apologized for the heated language Friday, saying in a post on social media platform X that his comments were “wrong.”
The White House heavily criticized James’ January comments on Friday, saying in a statement shared with The Hill that they are “dangerous” and “appalling.”
“These dangerous, appalling statements turn the stomach and should serve as a wakeup call. It is hideous to advocate for the murder of Jews,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in the statement.