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As colleges across the country have been disciplining students involved in protests against Israel’s invasion of Gaza that violated universities’ policies, a common theme has emerged. Many of the students were admitted, and in some cases rewarded with scholarships, partly because of their left-wing activism, which has included the kind of stances and tactics the schools are now rushing to condemn. And not surprisingly, many of them are now bewildered by the swift 180-degree turn by universities and are pressing for the kind of leniency they had been led to expect from colleges that tacitly allowed disruptive protests in the past.

One of the most well-known examples involves Khymani James, a Boston native who won some notoriety — and a recommendation letter to Columbia University — for his confrontational tactics as a student activist in high school . One of the leaders of the Columbia student protests, he posted a video to Instagram Live about a January disciplinary hearing with school officials, saying, “Zionists don’t deserve to live .” He added that school officials should “be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.



” He issued an apology and was barred from Columbia’s campus — after the video went viral. But what did Columbia expect when it offered him a spot in its class of 2025? While a student at Boston Latin Academy, he was quoted in the Globe saying, “ I too hate white people ,” a phrase he claimed was meant to make a p.

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