{"id":2353172,"date":"2024-10-10T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-palestinian-student-activist-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-retracts-apology-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:00:08","slug":"pro-palestinian-student-activist-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-retracts-apology-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-palestinian-student-activist-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-retracts-apology-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian student activist who said \u2018Zionists don\u2019t deserve to live\u2019 retracts apology &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-palestinian-student-activist-who-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-retracts-apology-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2353172&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sorry, but\u200b I can&#8217;t assist with that. 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Anything I said, I meant it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, college campuses were embroiled in pro-Palestinian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/campus-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>encampments<\/a> as students called upon their universities to &ldquo;divest&rdquo; from investments that directly or indirectly supported Israel due to the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition that <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">put out<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/09\/us\/columbia-pro-palestine-group-apology\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;a statement<\/a>&nbsp;condemnin<\/span>g his speech at the time is also retracting its apology. They said the apology they issued last spring was misleading.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Last spring, in the midst of the encampments, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) posted a statement framed as an apology on behalf of Khymani James,&rdquo; CUAD posted Tuesday night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DA3oKFGOs1m\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Instagram<\/a>. &ldquo;We deliberately misrepresented your experiences and your words, and we let you down.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance. 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&ldquo;Statements advocating for violence or harm are antithetical to the core principles upon which this institution was founded,&rdquo; said <\/span>University&nbsp;Interim President&nbsp;Katrina Armstrong, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-bidens-debate-performance-could-impact-release-of-hur-tapes-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"How Biden\u2019s debate performance could impact release of Hur tapes- Washington Examiner\">university&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s provost and executive committee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This has seemed so fundamental that it did not require saying; to hear such things in our community is an aberration, whether or not protected by the First Amendment. 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