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

A non-Jewish Canadian prof says helium 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 helium mislaid his occupation astatine Canada’s University of Guelph-Humber aft taking a beardown stance online astir the 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 helium said was "calling for the eradication of Israel." Though the writer aboriginal deleted his station and each corresponding comments, the National Post quoted from Finlayson’s effect successful a December 2023 article.

"If you accidental ‘from the River to the Sea’, you’re a Nazi," Finlayson wrote. "I’m not neutral. I basal with Israel. I basal against antisemites who privation thing but dormant Jews: who instrumentality millions from their acquisition and wellness attraction budgets and walk it connected making war…You basal with Palestine means you basal with Hitler. You don’t privation peace, you privation dormant Jews…They murdered 1,400 innocents and took 250 hostages and the radical celebrated rapist monsters arsenic heroes."

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

Since the post, Finlayson says helium has faced a targeted run against him which has affected his nonrecreational lasting and occupation prospects. 

Finlayson said that students astatine the schoolhouse recovered his LinkedIn reply earlier the post's writer erased the thread, starring to outcry. While gathering with a pupil successful his bureau connected Nov. 27, Finlayson said an head waited outside, yet presenting him with a suspension letter.

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

Finlayson said helium was "very well-liked" by students, who ranked him among the highest successful the concern section faculty. He said that rumors astir the 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 the "Kafkaesque" concern 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 the assemblage successful July 2025. He provided a transcript of his termination letter, which stated that aft a "formal ailment of favoritism and harassment," an researcher recovered that his "conduct violated the 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 oregon threatens Reprisal against a idiosyncratic who initiates a ailment oregon participates successful proceedings nether this Policy whitethorn beryllium taxable to disciplinary action."

The aforesaid argumentation says that "Humber upholds and supports the close to adjacent attraction 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, probe and firing, and astir whether anti-Israel posts shared by its students and a prof astatine the University interruption the Humber Human Rights and Harassment Policy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since the 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 the state successful 2025, representing a 9.4% summation implicit 2024. On average, this represented 18.6 incidents a time and was the "highest volume" the radical has recorded since it began tracking incidents.