Remember this winner from the spring of 2024? He sued Columbia over his suspension and he just lost. What a shame.
Remember Khymani James? The Columbia student who said, “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
Well, he sued his school after being suspended — and just lost.https://t.co/QDSZtI3TLv
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) August 18, 2026
The Daily Wire reports:
A Radical Columbia Student Threatened The Lives Of Zionists. A Judge Just Tossed His Lawsuit.
A former Columbia University student who went viral in 2024 after saying “Zionists don’t deserve to live” during a livestream of a disciplinary meeting has lost his lawsuit against the university.
Khymani James initially accused Columbia of discriminating against him because of his race and support for Palestinians, violating his rights under New York and New York City human rights laws, and failing to follow its own disciplinary procedures when it suspended him.
James’ suit then argued that Columbia violated his “Tedeschi rights,” which stem from a 1980 New York case requiring private universities to comply with their own disciplinary procedures. He also argued that the university punished him twice for conduct related to his January livestream and allowed outside pressure to influence its disciplinary decisions.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Waterman-Marshall dismissed James’ complaint on July 3, 2026, ruling that he could not pursue his “Tedeschi rights” claim as a standalone lawsuit and that he had failed to adequately plead his discrimination claims.
During the 2024 livestream of a meeting with Columbia’s Center for Student Success and Intervention, which had summoned James to discuss earlier antisemitic comments, he said “there should not be Zionists anywhere” and “the world is better without them,” while comparing killing Zionists to killing Adolf Hitler.
James was initially placed on disciplinary probation after Columbia determined in April 2024 that he violated university policies by livestreaming a January disciplinary meeting without permission and using language that “denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward group members of a protected class.” The probation period allowed him to continue his academic progress on the condition that further violations could lead to additional disciplinary action.
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