The story of Khymani James, one of the encampment leaders of the pro-Hamas occupation at Columbia University, went viral after multiple videos circulated of him talking about killing “Zionists”.

Or Jews.

Columbia’s president stated that social media posts that “threaten to ‘kill’ Jewish students are totally unacceptable… and one individual whose vile videos have surfaced in recent days is now banned from campus.”

Banned is not the same as expelled. Far from it.

And the kicker is that Khymani made some of his remarks in a video chat with Columbia U officials trying to investigate his previous remarks back in January.

Despite that, no action was taken.

That means a student talked to Columbia officials about his views on when other students could be killed (forget even the Jewish or Hamas part of it) and nothing was done. He was allowed to continue going to campus and then leading an occupation and no action was taken until his remarks to school officials went so viral that they were all over social media and were even being reported in the New York Times.

Even now it’s not at all clear that he’s gone. Just that he’s temporarily barred from campus.

By way to context, Ivy League schools denied admission to students whose old use of racial slurs from when they were kids had resurfaced in instant messages.

There absolutely are two standards. And that has to end.