Israel stands in the way of these totalitarian monsters’ evil fantasies. These barbarians pretending to be students, professors, lawyers. That’s why their rage goes beyond anything in their own dark lives. It’s why Israel (allegedly) has nuclear weapons. This is a dark time, and you’re one of the good ones. Much stronger than the monsters and the cowards. Don’t ever forget it.
Being fired for voicing disgust with the antisemitic hunt against a college shows just how deprived our system of education has become. Unfortunately, the only help I can offer is moral. But I also pledge my solidarity with the victim of this hateful witch hunt. I am a jew. In 1980, I took my family out of the USSR and made Canada my home. These days, I am ashamed of Canada. My family and I will always stand with Israel. AM YISROEL CHAI!
What amazes me that after destroying my career, my reputation with malicious defamation and my health they keep coming. They literally hate so much they want me dead. Not even exaggerating, their lawyers, one in particular Danielle Douak, is unhinged, their public safety manager takes some guy who called Hamas Nazis and threatens me with arrest. It’s not rational, it’s a witch hunt for the heretic. And the strain is immense.
These so-called people understand only one language - force. I know, this is not popular and may be frowned upon. But I am from Georgia (USSR). The only place on Soviet territory where, during Soviet rule, antisemitism (except for governmental) did not exist. Not because they loved the Jews, but because they knew that it was very dangerous to insult or offend the Jews.
Can you state exactly what you were fired for? What did they say and what was written? Prior to this, did you have an exemplary record with this University.? What about Christian law firms that are very pro-israel? You need to at least tell your story to the Anti-Defamation League and see what they say. This is awful.
My suspension arrived without any formal explanation. I was simply instructed not to speak with anyone and was immediately removed from campus. The meeting itself was marked by an angry, confrontational tone from the Associate Vice-Provost, leaving me both alarmed and confused about the basis for such drastic action.
Four weeks later, I received a Human Rights complaint signed by the Vice-Provost. What struck me immediately was the shift in voice within the document — portions of it appeared to echo allegations associated with Professor Ramadan, who, to my knowledge, had never met me but had nevertheless expressed strong objections about me to senior administration. (Only one of my many inquisitors had ever met me)
The complaint characterised me as violent and a safety risk, descriptions that were profoundly at odds with my professional record. It was the start of a trial by politics and defamation - procedural fairness was never allowed on stage or even in the room. After two years, both institutions admitted that the defamatory accusations were false and fabricated to destroy my reputation. But, as they knew, the damage had been done.
It is my belief that these accusations were triggered, at least in part, by my public condemnation of Hamas and support for Israel, which I had described in stark terms. I said it to a man not affiliated with the Unversity and one disgruntled student formed a mob with the professor to get me fired. The professor actively courted third party extermist orgs to get their members to write in to defame me and call for my termination. The University was aware of all this but did nothing.
From that moment forward, the institutional posture toward me appeared to harden considerably.
For approximately eighteen months that followed, I experienced what I perceived as ongoing threats and administrative pressure. My opportunity to respond consisted of roughly ninety minutes with an investigator retained by the university — a process that, from my perspective, did not provide a meaningful chance to address the allegations or present a full defence. She shouted at me in the meeting and accused me of absurd things; my response was laughter.
What remains most troubling is that throughout this period, I never had a substantive conversation with the Vice-Provost, the Associate Vice-Provost, the President of the University of Guelph, or the senior officials whose names ultimately appeared on termination documents. Decisions of enormous consequence were made without, it seemed to me, any direct engagement. During an online meeting, the Provost refused to acknowledge me, and the union told me not to speak. Bad actors throughout the university had poisoned the workplace against me. I never had a chance, and that seemed the plan.
When the termination letter finally arrived, it offered little clarity. It referenced “offences” but did not specify conduct in a way that allowed for meaningful understanding or response. My appeals were returned unread.
I recognise that institutional representatives may offer their own narrative of these events. Mine is different. Based on the sequence of actions and the absence of articulated reasons, I believe my termination stemmed from the controversy surrounding my statements and from my insistence on being heard when I believed collective agreement provisions and human rights obligations were not being followed.
At one point, my efforts to assert procedural fairness — simply expecting a response and making that expectation known — were themselves characterised as harassment. That inversion remains difficult to comprehend.
When a long-serving employee with an otherwise unblemished record is dismissed through a process in which key decision-makers have never spoken to him, speculation becomes almost unavoidable. One is left to reconstruct the rationale from fragments rather than from a transparent explanation.
Prior to these events, I was largely unknown to both union leadership and senior administration. Yet after expressing support for Israel in response to what I perceived as antisemitic rhetoric abroad, the institutional reaction felt swift and severe — less like a measured administrative process and more like an emotional rupture.
I continue to believe that what occurred raises serious questions about procedural fairness, institutional responsibility, and the obligation to hear before condemning.
CONTACT-The Lawfare Project (LP) does not have a dedicated, physical office location in Toronto; its official headquarters are in New York, New York.
However, the organization has a significant and active presence in Toronto and across Canada through strategic partnerships and specific initiatives.
The Lawfare Project's Presence in Toronto
Local Legal Partners: The Lawfare Project has formed a strong alliance with the Toronto-based law firm Diamond & Diamond LLP and other local counsel like RE-LAW LLP. This collaboration acts as a "pro bono legal war room" to pursue high-impact cases of antisemitism in the region.
Legal Actions: The LP has actively litigated cases in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, including securing a significant victory in a defamation lawsuit against a Toronto restaurant owner who targeted a client with antisemitic rhetoric. They have also sued the Ontario College of Art & Design University for anti-Jewish discrimination.
Fact-Finding and Investigations: In late 2025, the Lawfare Project launched a major investigation from its "Canada" base into whether certain Canadian-registered charities, following a Toronto Sun investigation, were potentially funnelling funds to extremist organizations.
Community Events: The organization brought the Nova Music Festival Exhibition to Toronto in the spring of 2025 to honor victims of a terrorist attack and raise awareness about human rights and extremism.
Have you reached out to The Free Press? I think they’d find your story interesting and it would give it very wide circulation. That, in turn, can put you in touch with some powerful people.
Yes, Barri Weiss at the Free Press. This is a very important story because we are appreciative of Christian supporters. In a world where people don't care if this is becoming 1939 Germany, your voice is very important
She might be a bit busy right now. Maybe reach out to one of her contributors for faster response. Coleman Hughes, Rafaela Siewert or Matti Friedman might be receptive. All three are on X and maybe Substack too.
You have moved me to tears. Thank you for standing unflinchingly with the Jews.The sins of Canada will go down in history as a blight and brutal stain on the entire society that is joining or staying silent in the face of Jew-hatred.
Thank you again for being righteous among the nations. I will not forget you and your bravery.
Also, I would suggest reaching out to Stand With Us Canada. Although you are not Jewish, you are definitely experiencing extreme discrimination due to anti-semitism.
Do you have any opinion about what happened with the Canadian truckers strike? Do you see any common cause with them? It is a distinction that matters little to your plight, but I believe you have fallen on the wrong side of a fight about politics as opposed to anything about anti-Semitism. You arent even Jewish.
Thank you. My two appeals were both rejected yesterday at university. Both unread, as all my defence documents were never read. It’s a bit crushing, I never thought my academic colleagues of 14 years could be so dishonest. But reason doesn’t work on the unreasonable. Hate has turned them into well dressed drooling idiots.
I went to the University of Guelph. This is horrifying.
I loved it when I went there. Even with the rising antisemitism. This was long ago, and it was only the fringe anarchists who spent their time in clubs and magazines than the average student, who cared more for parties and grades and relationships, than obsessing over Israel.
I'm reading this a year later, and I don't know where your situation is at now, but I'd like to offer at least moral support. As someone who used to live and to study in Guelph.
And now I live in Jerusalem. When you visit, reach out - I'd love to offer you a cup of tea and show you around.
Thank so much for standing with us. I admire your courage when so many of my fellow Jews stand by shamelessly silent.
I am an ordinary, elderly, jewish, very proud Israeli who in her teens ( in the fiftees) lived in Montreal for several years. I loved and respected Canada but eventually chose Israel as my home as I understood that this is the only place on earth for the Jews.
My heart bleeds for Canada, home of the free.
Unfortunately I am afraid that the western world will wake up too late to see reality.
Again thank you from the bottom of my heart for your courage and strength.
I fear the situation is much the same at Australian universities. Will these institutions ever return to what they once were? Thank you for standing up to them. I hope I would be as brave if they came for me.
I hope you are suing the university, that particular vice-provost, and anyone in their HR department involved in this travesty. Hamas traces its lineage directly to the Nazis, this is not some calumny you invented. I am almost sorry that I am not an alumnus of that university, as I’d love to be able to tell them to go pound sand when they call looking for donations. Although I did tell the University of Toronto to do so this year, for similar reasons.
I am taking them to the Human Rights Tribunal, but that will take at least a year. I am not prepared to play an amateur lawyer, but I hope CIJA will help me; I can pay some, but I can’t go up against a multimillion-dollar state-funded institution. I’m not sure what my civil options are. I just added up how much they have spent attacking me, not including internal labour (just call that a sunk cost), but $300K for salary cover and legal (I bet my legal is too low). I am using every regulatory agency I can to investigate them, making FOI requests on all of them, and I am Chat GPT arguing with their lawyers and keeping everything. But the bigger thing than the suspension is the defamation and the slander; that’s where the PTSD came from; the dog barks and my whole body goes into combat mode. I will recover, but the insanity of this. I called Hamas Nazis, and I upset a radical antisemite whose entire social portfolio violates the speech code a hundred times over, and they let that go completely; they don’t care; I’m not sure if they hate Jews that much or if they are just afraid of losing their huge Muslim student base.
The infuriating thing is, Hamas ARE literally fucking Nazis. The HRT is pathetic. You need a pit bull of an employment lawyer and a go fund me to help pay the bills. This has got to be the best wrongful dismissal suit ever- lawyers should be calling you wanting the case.
Israel stands in the way of these totalitarian monsters’ evil fantasies. These barbarians pretending to be students, professors, lawyers. That’s why their rage goes beyond anything in their own dark lives. It’s why Israel (allegedly) has nuclear weapons. This is a dark time, and you’re one of the good ones. Much stronger than the monsters and the cowards. Don’t ever forget it.
Being fired for voicing disgust with the antisemitic hunt against a college shows just how deprived our system of education has become. Unfortunately, the only help I can offer is moral. But I also pledge my solidarity with the victim of this hateful witch hunt. I am a jew. In 1980, I took my family out of the USSR and made Canada my home. These days, I am ashamed of Canada. My family and I will always stand with Israel. AM YISROEL CHAI!
What amazes me that after destroying my career, my reputation with malicious defamation and my health they keep coming. They literally hate so much they want me dead. Not even exaggerating, their lawyers, one in particular Danielle Douak, is unhinged, their public safety manager takes some guy who called Hamas Nazis and threatens me with arrest. It’s not rational, it’s a witch hunt for the heretic. And the strain is immense.
These so-called people understand only one language - force. I know, this is not popular and may be frowned upon. But I am from Georgia (USSR). The only place on Soviet territory where, during Soviet rule, antisemitism (except for governmental) did not exist. Not because they loved the Jews, but because they knew that it was very dangerous to insult or offend the Jews.
Can you state exactly what you were fired for? What did they say and what was written? Prior to this, did you have an exemplary record with this University.? What about Christian law firms that are very pro-israel? You need to at least tell your story to the Anti-Defamation League and see what they say. This is awful.
My suspension arrived without any formal explanation. I was simply instructed not to speak with anyone and was immediately removed from campus. The meeting itself was marked by an angry, confrontational tone from the Associate Vice-Provost, leaving me both alarmed and confused about the basis for such drastic action.
Four weeks later, I received a Human Rights complaint signed by the Vice-Provost. What struck me immediately was the shift in voice within the document — portions of it appeared to echo allegations associated with Professor Ramadan, who, to my knowledge, had never met me but had nevertheless expressed strong objections about me to senior administration. (Only one of my many inquisitors had ever met me)
The complaint characterised me as violent and a safety risk, descriptions that were profoundly at odds with my professional record. It was the start of a trial by politics and defamation - procedural fairness was never allowed on stage or even in the room. After two years, both institutions admitted that the defamatory accusations were false and fabricated to destroy my reputation. But, as they knew, the damage had been done.
It is my belief that these accusations were triggered, at least in part, by my public condemnation of Hamas and support for Israel, which I had described in stark terms. I said it to a man not affiliated with the Unversity and one disgruntled student formed a mob with the professor to get me fired. The professor actively courted third party extermist orgs to get their members to write in to defame me and call for my termination. The University was aware of all this but did nothing.
From that moment forward, the institutional posture toward me appeared to harden considerably.
For approximately eighteen months that followed, I experienced what I perceived as ongoing threats and administrative pressure. My opportunity to respond consisted of roughly ninety minutes with an investigator retained by the university — a process that, from my perspective, did not provide a meaningful chance to address the allegations or present a full defence. She shouted at me in the meeting and accused me of absurd things; my response was laughter.
What remains most troubling is that throughout this period, I never had a substantive conversation with the Vice-Provost, the Associate Vice-Provost, the President of the University of Guelph, or the senior officials whose names ultimately appeared on termination documents. Decisions of enormous consequence were made without, it seemed to me, any direct engagement. During an online meeting, the Provost refused to acknowledge me, and the union told me not to speak. Bad actors throughout the university had poisoned the workplace against me. I never had a chance, and that seemed the plan.
When the termination letter finally arrived, it offered little clarity. It referenced “offences” but did not specify conduct in a way that allowed for meaningful understanding or response. My appeals were returned unread.
I recognise that institutional representatives may offer their own narrative of these events. Mine is different. Based on the sequence of actions and the absence of articulated reasons, I believe my termination stemmed from the controversy surrounding my statements and from my insistence on being heard when I believed collective agreement provisions and human rights obligations were not being followed.
At one point, my efforts to assert procedural fairness — simply expecting a response and making that expectation known — were themselves characterised as harassment. That inversion remains difficult to comprehend.
When a long-serving employee with an otherwise unblemished record is dismissed through a process in which key decision-makers have never spoken to him, speculation becomes almost unavoidable. One is left to reconstruct the rationale from fragments rather than from a transparent explanation.
Prior to these events, I was largely unknown to both union leadership and senior administration. Yet after expressing support for Israel in response to what I perceived as antisemitic rhetoric abroad, the institutional reaction felt swift and severe — less like a measured administrative process and more like an emotional rupture.
I continue to believe that what occurred raises serious questions about procedural fairness, institutional responsibility, and the obligation to hear before condemning.
CONTACT-The Lawfare Project (LP) does not have a dedicated, physical office location in Toronto; its official headquarters are in New York, New York.
However, the organization has a significant and active presence in Toronto and across Canada through strategic partnerships and specific initiatives.
The Lawfare Project's Presence in Toronto
Local Legal Partners: The Lawfare Project has formed a strong alliance with the Toronto-based law firm Diamond & Diamond LLP and other local counsel like RE-LAW LLP. This collaboration acts as a "pro bono legal war room" to pursue high-impact cases of antisemitism in the region.
Legal Actions: The LP has actively litigated cases in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, including securing a significant victory in a defamation lawsuit against a Toronto restaurant owner who targeted a client with antisemitic rhetoric. They have also sued the Ontario College of Art & Design University for anti-Jewish discrimination.
Fact-Finding and Investigations: In late 2025, the Lawfare Project launched a major investigation from its "Canada" base into whether certain Canadian-registered charities, following a Toronto Sun investigation, were potentially funnelling funds to extremist organizations.
Community Events: The organization brought the Nova Music Festival Exhibition to Toronto in the spring of 2025 to honor victims of a terrorist attack and raise awareness about human rights and extremism.
I’ve talked to them. They are unclear if they will or can help
Have you reached out to The Free Press? I think they’d find your story interesting and it would give it very wide circulation. That, in turn, can put you in touch with some powerful people.
Yes, Barri Weiss at the Free Press. This is a very important story because we are appreciative of Christian supporters. In a world where people don't care if this is becoming 1939 Germany, your voice is very important
She might be a bit busy right now. Maybe reach out to one of her contributors for faster response. Coleman Hughes, Rafaela Siewert or Matti Friedman might be receptive. All three are on X and maybe Substack too.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulfinlayson/p/fired-sacked-terminated-deplatformed?r=iy2ds&utm_medium=ios
I was fired six weeks ago.
I contacted them.
Allies for a Strong Canada is a non-Jewish advocacy group with serious connections. They may be helpful.
Ok thx
You have moved me to tears. Thank you for standing unflinchingly with the Jews.The sins of Canada will go down in history as a blight and brutal stain on the entire society that is joining or staying silent in the face of Jew-hatred.
Thank you again for being righteous among the nations. I will not forget you and your bravery.
Also, I would suggest reaching out to Stand With Us Canada. Although you are not Jewish, you are definitely experiencing extreme discrimination due to anti-semitism.
They may have legal resources for you.
https://standwithus.com/canada/
Do you have any opinion about what happened with the Canadian truckers strike? Do you see any common cause with them? It is a distinction that matters little to your plight, but I believe you have fallen on the wrong side of a fight about politics as opposed to anything about anti-Semitism. You arent even Jewish.
Thank you very much, from a Jewish girl in Canada. God bless you.
Thank you. My two appeals were both rejected yesterday at university. Both unread, as all my defence documents were never read. It’s a bit crushing, I never thought my academic colleagues of 14 years could be so dishonest. But reason doesn’t work on the unreasonable. Hate has turned them into well dressed drooling idiots.
Also, reach out to "Stand with Us."
I’ve tried a few times. They’ve never responded.
I am so sorry.
Thanks for sharing your story.
The greatest difference between the 1930s and now is, of course, Israel.
The Canadians accuse Israel of unforgivable colonial crimes while importing the British king to assert their sovereignty.
I went to the University of Guelph. This is horrifying.
I loved it when I went there. Even with the rising antisemitism. This was long ago, and it was only the fringe anarchists who spent their time in clubs and magazines than the average student, who cared more for parties and grades and relationships, than obsessing over Israel.
I'm reading this a year later, and I don't know where your situation is at now, but I'd like to offer at least moral support. As someone who used to live and to study in Guelph.
And now I live in Jerusalem. When you visit, reach out - I'd love to offer you a cup of tea and show you around.
I have a lawyer but with union abandonment there is a limited amount they can do
Thank so much for standing with us. I admire your courage when so many of my fellow Jews stand by shamelessly silent.
I am an ordinary, elderly, jewish, very proud Israeli who in her teens ( in the fiftees) lived in Montreal for several years. I loved and respected Canada but eventually chose Israel as my home as I understood that this is the only place on earth for the Jews.
My heart bleeds for Canada, home of the free.
Unfortunately I am afraid that the western world will wake up too late to see reality.
Again thank you from the bottom of my heart for your courage and strength.
I fear the situation is much the same at Australian universities. Will these institutions ever return to what they once were? Thank you for standing up to them. I hope I would be as brave if they came for me.
I’m so sorry for what’s happening to you. Please continue to write the next chapters. I knew Israel was in this conclusion. Mazel Tov!
I hope you are suing the university, that particular vice-provost, and anyone in their HR department involved in this travesty. Hamas traces its lineage directly to the Nazis, this is not some calumny you invented. I am almost sorry that I am not an alumnus of that university, as I’d love to be able to tell them to go pound sand when they call looking for donations. Although I did tell the University of Toronto to do so this year, for similar reasons.
I am taking them to the Human Rights Tribunal, but that will take at least a year. I am not prepared to play an amateur lawyer, but I hope CIJA will help me; I can pay some, but I can’t go up against a multimillion-dollar state-funded institution. I’m not sure what my civil options are. I just added up how much they have spent attacking me, not including internal labour (just call that a sunk cost), but $300K for salary cover and legal (I bet my legal is too low). I am using every regulatory agency I can to investigate them, making FOI requests on all of them, and I am Chat GPT arguing with their lawyers and keeping everything. But the bigger thing than the suspension is the defamation and the slander; that’s where the PTSD came from; the dog barks and my whole body goes into combat mode. I will recover, but the insanity of this. I called Hamas Nazis, and I upset a radical antisemite whose entire social portfolio violates the speech code a hundred times over, and they let that go completely; they don’t care; I’m not sure if they hate Jews that much or if they are just afraid of losing their huge Muslim student base.
The infuriating thing is, Hamas ARE literally fucking Nazis. The HRT is pathetic. You need a pit bull of an employment lawyer and a go fund me to help pay the bills. This has got to be the best wrongful dismissal suit ever- lawyers should be calling you wanting the case.