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March 31, 2026

How a Canadian Professor Got Railroaded Over a Single Pro-Israel Comment

A Kafkaesque campaign.

Paul Finlayson was, for fifteen years, a beloved professor of marketing at the University of Guelph-Humber, a small institution in Toronto. Shortly after the October 7 attacks, he found himself in a heated online exchange where he told an Israel-hating interlocutor from Pakistan, “You stand with Palestine means you stand with Hitler.” Finlayson later conceded that the post was “hot-headed and unwise.” But it was reported to university administrators, in what appears to have been a campaign coordinated by a fellow professor named Wael Ramadan. Thereafter,

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