James also shared a string of posts calling for more violence
Columbia University encampment organizer Khymani James, who has fantasized about “murdering Zionists,” celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday and called for more violence.
Shortly after news broke that Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot while giving a speech at Utah Valley University, James posted to X, “More. MORE!!!” and “Down with all the fascists.”
“‘[B]e careful what you post’ and it’s people rightfully celebrating the inevitable and just fate of fascists. anywho… NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED,” James wrote Wednesday afternoon.
James also shared a string of posts celebrating Kirk’s murder, with one reading “I will never mourn a genocide apologist. Not sorry, rest in piss.”
“Thoughts and prayers for the bullet,” another read. “I think Nazis should be shot, actually,” read a third.
A Columbia spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon, “Encouraging violence against others is unacceptable and has no place in our civil discourse.”
James served as a leader and spokesman for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the school’s most notorious anti-Semitic student group, during the unlawful tent encampment that disrupted Columbia at the close of the 2024 spring semester. At one point, he mobilized participants to remove “Zionists” he said entered the encampment.
James was suspended from Columbia after video surfaced of him arguing that university officials should be “grateful that I’m not just going out there and murdering Zionists.” CUAD initially denounced those comments, but later backpedaled, apologized to James, and released a statement saying “liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance” and “violence is the only path forward.” James thanked his “comrades” for their “beautiful, powerful” words and said he “couldn’t agree more” with the endorsement of violence.
“I will not allow anyone to shame me for my politics,” he wrote. “Anything I said, I meant it.”
It’s unclear if James was expelled, but a person with knowledge told the Free Beacon he is not a registered student, is barred from campus, has not been in attendance, and has not been an active Columbia community member since April 2024.
James’s disdain for Kirk should come as no surprise. The conservative activist was an outspoken supporter of Israel, taking to college campuses in the United States and abroad to debate students.
“The war started because 1,300 Jews were killed and 200 were taken hostage,” he said of Israel’s war on Hamas at a Cambridge University debate this summer. “When you declare war on Israel, expect a firestorm in reaction.”
“The IDF, when they do something right, they get no credit. When they do life-saving surgeries of a Gazan child, they get no credit,” he continued. “But when they happen to bomb a place where they are operating their military from—which we now know from third-party verified sources, hundreds of Hamas military operations are in mosques, schools, and hospitals—I’m sorry. … Hamas started the war.”
Last month, he condemned anti-Semitism, posting on X, “Jew hate has no place in civil society. It rots the brain, reject it.”
Authorities announced Thursday morning that they have obtained video footage of the person suspected of shooting and killing Kirk. Investigators also found a high-powered bolt-action rifle in the woods near the Utah university that contained ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and anti-fascist ideology, the Wall Street Journal reported. Kirk was discussing mass shootings by transgender attackers when he was assassinated.
The manhunt is ongoing.
Read the full article here
