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A non-Jewish Canadian professor says he was fired from his college for defending Israel in a social media put up as antisemitism exploded throughout Canada following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist assaults.
Paul Finlayson advised Fox Information Digital that he misplaced his job at Canada’s College of Guelph-Humber after taking a powerful stance on-line in regards to the bloodbath and kidnapping of Israelis and foreigners — together with Individuals and Canadians.
Finlayson responded in November of 2023 to a LinkedIn message from an abroad educator who he mentioned was “calling for the eradication of Israel.” Although the creator later deleted his put up and all corresponding feedback, the National Post quoted from Finlayson’s response in a December 2023 article.
“In case you say ‘from the River to the Sea’, you’re a Nazi,” Finlayson wrote. “I’m not impartial. I stand with Israel. I stand in opposition to antisemites who need nothing however lifeless Jews: who take hundreds of thousands from their schooling and well being care budgets and spend it on making conflict…You stand with Palestine means you stand with Hitler. You don’t need peace, you need lifeless Jews…They murdered 1,400 innocents and took 250 hostages and the individuals celebrated rapist monsters as heroes.”
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Paul Finlayson says he misplaced his job after taking a powerful stance on-line in opposition to the Hamas terror assaults on Israel. (Paul Finlayson )
For the reason that put up, Finlayson says he has confronted a targeted campaign against him which has affected his skilled standing and job prospects.
Finlayson mentioned that college students on the college discovered his LinkedIn reply earlier than the put up’s creator erased the thread, resulting in outcry. Whereas assembly with a scholar in his workplace on Nov. 27, Finlayson mentioned an administrator waited exterior, finally presenting him with a suspension letter.
A replica of the suspension letter, offered by Finlayson, cites “inappropriate on-line feedback” and locations the professor “on depart pending the result of the investigation.” It directed Finlayson to not contact “any of your departmental employees or college students or broader members of the [university].”
Finlayson mentioned he was “very well-liked” by college students, who ranked him among the many highest within the enterprise division school. He mentioned that rumors in regards to the accusations in opposition to him destroyed his educational popularity, which included formulating programs and writing textbooks.
“My trial has been by defamation, and it continues by defamation,” Finlayson mentioned of the “Kafkaesque” state of affairs that ensued.
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Anti-Israel protesters maintain antisemitic posters in Edmonton, Alberta, on April 13, 2025. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto)
He says that his union, OPSEU Native 562, refused to characterize him. The union didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Finlayson was formally fired by the college in July 2025. He offered a duplicate of his termination letter, which acknowledged that after a “formal criticism of discrimination and harassment,” an investigator discovered that his “conduct violated the Ontario Human Rights Code and Humber’s Human Rights and Harassment Coverage, and that [he] engaged in reprisal underneath each of these devices.”
The Humber harassment policy states that “anybody who makes an attempt Reprisal or threatens Reprisal in opposition to an individual who initiates a criticism or participates in proceedings underneath this Coverage could also be topic to disciplinary motion.”
The identical coverage says that “Humber upholds and helps the correct to equal therapy with out Discrimination” based mostly on prohibited grounds, which embrace antisemitism.
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Temple Emanu-El in Toronto was shot at on March 3, 2026. No accidents have been reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star by way of Getty Photographs)
The College of Guelph-Humber didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s questions on Finlayson’s suspension, investigation and firing, and about whether or not anti-Israel posts shared by its college students and a professor on the College violate the Humber Human Rights and Harassment Coverage.
The College of Guelph’s “UofGforPalestine” Instagram page, which presents itself because the account of “college students, employees, and college who stand in solidarity with Palestine,” has shared posts with the inverted crimson triangle that Hamas makes use of to mark targets. Just like the U.S., Canada designates Hamas as a terror group.
In November 2024, the group shared pictures on its Instagram account of a guillotine that “appeared on a strolling path” in Guelph, which featured pictures of the heads of Canadian, American and Israeli leaders coated in crimson paint. Although presupposed to be an “nameless submission,” the put up notes its “message” as “Demise to empire, loss of life to colonialism and imperialism, loss of life to the conflict machine.”
The College of Guelph Humber in Ontario, Canada. (Google Maps)
A College of Guelph-Humber professor whom Finlayson believes introduced the case in opposition to him has posted inflammatory rhetoric on his personal LinkedIn account, calling Israel a “terrorist state,” and stating that the world “can not have each” peace and Israel.
The professor didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s requests for remark.
Whereas Finlayson misplaced his place, elsewhere in Canada, activism led to starkly completely different circumstances for 3 staffers at York College, who have been amongst 11 people charged with “hate-motivated mischief” in Nov 2023 for plastering a bookstore with pictures accusing a Jewish CEO of genocide, and splashing the shop with crimson paint, as reported by the Nationwide Put up.
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Although they have been initially suspended from the college, no less than two employees members seem to have present profiles on the York College web site. One, a professor, most just lately taught programs on the college within the Winter 2026 semester. York College didn’t reply to requests for remark about its restoration of employees members’ roles.
For the reason that Oct. 7 terrorist assaults, antisemitism has exploded in Canada. In April, B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights launched a report displaying that 6,800 antisemitic incidents occurred within the nation in 2025, representing a 9.4% improve over 2024. On common, this represented 18.6 incidents a day and was the “highest quantity” the group has recorded because it started monitoring incidents.
