Non-Jewish professor says he was fired for calling out Hamas supporters in online post

A non-Jewish Canadian professor says he was fired from his assemblage for defending Israel successful a societal media station arsenic antisemitism exploded crossed Canada pursuing Hamas’ Oct. 7 violent attacks.

Paul Finlayson told Fox News Digital that he mislaid his occupation astatine Canada’s University of Guelph-Humber aft taking a beardown stance online astir nan massacre and kidnapping of Israelis and foreigners — including Americans and Canadians.

Finlayson responded successful November of 2023 to a LinkedIn connection from an overseas pedagogue who he said was "calling for nan eradication of Israel." Though nan writer later deleted his station and each corresponding comments, the National Post quoted from Finlayson’s consequence successful a December 2023 article.

"If you opportunity ‘from nan River to nan Sea’, you’re a Nazi," Finlayson wrote. "I’m not neutral. I guidelines pinch Israel. I guidelines against antisemites who want thing but dormant Jews: who return millions from their acquisition and wellness attraction budgets and walk it connected making war…You guidelines pinch Palestine intends you guidelines pinch Hitler. You don’t want peace, you want dormant Jews…They murdered 1,400 innocents and took 250 hostages and nan group celebrated rapist monsters arsenic heroes."

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Paul Finlayson says he mislaid his occupation aft taking a beardown stance online against nan Hamas panic attacks connected Israel. (Paul Finlayson )

Since nan post, Finlayson says he has faced a targeted run against him which has affected his master opinionated and occupation prospects. 

Finlayson said that students astatine nan schoolhouse recovered his LinkedIn reply earlier nan post's writer erased nan thread, starring to outcry. While gathering pinch a student successful his agency connected Nov. 27, Finlayson said an administrator waited outside, yet presenting him pinch a suspension letter.

A transcript of nan suspension letter, provided by Finlayson, cites "inappropriate online comments" and places nan professor "on time off pending nan result of nan investigation." It directed Finlayson not to interaction "any of your departmental unit aliases students aliases broader members of nan [university]."

Finlayson said he was "very well-liked" by students, who classed him among nan highest successful nan business section faculty. He said that rumors astir nan accusations against him destroyed his world reputation, which included formulating courses and penning textbooks.

"My proceedings has been by defamation, and it continues by defamation," Finlayson said of nan "Kafkaesque" business that ensued.

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Anti-Israel protesters clasp antisemitic posters successful Edmonton, Alberta, connected April 13, 2025. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto)

He says that his union, OPSEU Local 562, refused to correspond him. The national did not respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Finlayson was officially fired by nan assemblage successful July 2025. He provided a transcript of his termination letter, which stated that aft a "formal title of favoritism and harassment," an interrogator recovered that his "conduct violated nan Ontario Human Rights Code and Humber’s Human Rights and Harassment Policy, and that [he] engaged successful reprisal nether some of those instruments."

The Humber harassment argumentation states that "anyone who attempts Reprisal aliases threatens Reprisal against a personification who initiates a title aliases participates successful proceedings nether this Policy whitethorn beryllium taxable to disciplinary action."

The aforesaid argumentation says that "Humber upholds and supports nan correct to adjacent curen without Discrimination" based connected prohibited grounds, which see antisemitism.

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Temple Emanu-El successful Toronto was changeable astatine connected March 3, 2026. No injuries were reported. (Nick Lachance/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

The University of Guelph-Humber did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions astir Finlayson’s suspension, investigation and firing, and astir whether anti-Israel posts shared by its students and a professor astatine nan University break nan Humber Human Rights and Harassment Policy.

The University of Guelph’s "UofGforPalestine" Instagram page, which presents itself arsenic nan relationship of "students, staff, and module who guidelines successful solidarity pinch Palestine," has shared posts pinch nan inverted reddish triangle that Hamas uses to people targets. Like nan U.S., Canada designates Hamas arsenic a panic group.

In November 2024, nan group shared photos connected its Instagram account of a guillotine that "appeared connected a stepping path" successful Guelph, which featured photos of nan heads of Canadian, American and Israeli leaders coated successful reddish paint. Though purported to beryllium an "anonymous submission," nan station notes its "message" arsenic "Death to empire, decease to colonialism and imperialism, decease to nan warfare machine."

The University of Guelph Humber successful Ontario, Canada.  (Google Maps)

A University of Guelph-Humber professor whom Finlayson believes brought nan lawsuit against him has posted inflammatory rhetoric connected his ain LinkedIn account, calling Israel a "terrorist state," and stating that nan world "cannot person both" bid and Israel.

The professor did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

While Finlayson mislaid his position, elsewhere successful Canada, activism led to starkly different circumstances for 3 staffers astatine York University, who were among 11 individuals charged pinch "hate-motivated mischief" successful Nov 2023 for plastering a bookstore pinch photos accusing a Jewish CEO of genocide, and splashing nan shop pinch reddish paint, arsenic reported by nan National Post.

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Though they were initially suspended from nan school, astatine slightest 2 unit members look to person existent profiles connected nan York University website. One, a professor, astir precocious taught courses astatine nan schoolhouse successful nan Winter 2026 semester. York University did not respond to requests for remark astir its restoration of unit members’ roles.

Since nan Oct. 7 violent attacks, antisemitism has exploded successful Canada. In April, B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights released a study showing that 6,800 antisemitic incidents took spot successful nan state successful 2025, representing a 9.4% summation complete 2024. On average, this represented 18.6 incidents a time and was nan "highest volume" nan group has recorded since it began search incidents.