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A non-Jewish Canadian professor says he was fired from his university for defending Israel in a social media post as antisemitism exploded across Canada following Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.
Paul Finlayson told Fox News Digital that he lost his job at Canada’s University of Guelph-Humber after taking a strong stance online about the massacre and kidnapping of Israelis and foreigners — including Americans and Canadians.
Finlayson responded in November of 2023 to a LinkedIn message from an overseas educator who he said was «calling for the eradication of Israel.» Though the author later deleted his post and all corresponding comments, the National Post quoted from Finlayson’s response in a December 2023 article.
«If you say ‘from the River to the Sea’, you’re a Nazi,» Finlayson wrote. «I’m not neutral. I stand with Israel. I stand against antisemites who want nothing but dead Jews: who take millions from their education and health care budgets and spend it on making war…You stand with Palestine means you stand with Hitler. You don’t want peace, you want dead Jews…They murdered 1,400 innocents and took 250 hostages and the people celebrated rapist monsters as heroes.»
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Paul Finlayson says he lost his job after taking a strong stance online against the Hamas terror attacks on Israel. (Paul Finlayson )
Since the post, Finlayson says he has faced a targeted campaign against him which has affected his professional standing and job prospects.
Finlayson said that students at the school found his LinkedIn reply before the post’s author erased the thread, leading to outcry. While meeting with a student in his office on Nov. 27, Finlayson said an administrator waited outside, eventually presenting him with a suspension letter.
A copy of the suspension letter, provided by Finlayson, cites «inappropriate online comments» and places the professor «on leave pending the outcome of the investigation.» It directed Finlayson not to contact «any of your departmental staff or students or broader members of the [university].»
Finlayson said he was «very well-liked» by students, who ranked him among the highest in the business department faculty. He said that rumors about the accusations against him destroyed his academic reputation, which included formulating courses and writing textbooks.
«My trial has been by defamation, and it continues by defamation,» Finlayson said of the «Kafkaesque» situation that ensued.
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Anti-Israel protesters hold antisemitic posters in Edmonton, Alberta, on April 13, 2025. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto)
He says that his union, OPSEU Local 562, refused to represent him. The union did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Finlayson was officially fired by the university in July 2025. He provided a copy of his termination letter, which stated that after a «formal complaint of discrimination and harassment,» an investigator found that his «conduct violated the Ontario Human Rights Code and Humber’s Human Rights and Harassment Policy, and that [he] engaged in reprisal under both of those instruments.»
The Humber harassment policy states that «anyone who attempts Reprisal or threatens Reprisal against a person who initiates a complaint or participates in proceedings under this Policy may be subject to disciplinary action.»
The same policy says that «Humber upholds and supports the right to equal treatment without Discrimination» based on prohibited grounds, which include antisemitism.
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Temple Emanu-El in Toronto was shot at on 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 about Finlayson’s suspension, investigation and firing, and about whether anti-Israel posts shared by its students and a professor at the University violate the Humber Human Rights and Harassment Policy.
The University of Guelph’s «UofGforPalestine» Instagram page, which presents itself as the account of «students, staff, and faculty who stand in solidarity with Palestine,» has shared posts with the inverted red triangle that Hamas uses to mark targets. Like the U.S., Canada designates Hamas as a terror group.
In November 2024, the group shared photos on its Instagram account of a guillotine that «appeared on a walking path» in Guelph, which featured photos of the heads of Canadian, American and Israeli leaders coated in red paint. Though purported to be an «anonymous submission,» the post notes its «message» as «Death to empire, death to colonialism and imperialism, death to the war machine.»
The University of Guelph Humber in Ontario, Canada. (Google Maps)
A University of Guelph-Humber professor whom Finlayson believes brought the case against him has posted inflammatory rhetoric on his own LinkedIn account, calling Israel a «terrorist state,» and stating that the world «cannot have both» peace and Israel.
The professor did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
While Finlayson lost his position, elsewhere in Canada, activism led to starkly different circumstances for three staffers at York University, who were among 11 individuals charged with «hate-motivated mischief» in Nov 2023 for plastering a bookstore with photos accusing a Jewish CEO of genocide, and splashing the store with red paint, as reported by the National Post.
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Though they were initially suspended from the school, at least two staff members appear to have current profiles on the York University website. One, a professor, most recently taught courses at the school in the Winter 2026 semester. York University did not respond to requests for comment about its restoration of staff members’ roles.
Since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, antisemitism has exploded in Canada. In April, B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights released a report showing that 6,800 antisemitic incidents took place in the country in 2025, representing a 9.4% increase over 2024. On average, this represented 18.6 incidents a day and was the «highest volume» the group has recorded since it began tracking incidents.
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House Democrats split over a resolution backing law enforcement as assaults on officers surged last year.
Just 29 House Democrats on Wednesday voted for a GOP-authored measure paying tribute to the «extraordinary sacrifice» law enforcement officers make and criticizing the defund the police movement for jeopardizing public safety.
Meanwhile, 173 Democrats voted with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., against the resolution, while every GOP lawmaker present supported it.
«We want to take that best practice of respecting law enforcement in Iowa to the nation’s capital, and I was thrilled that we got bipartisan support,» Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, who introduced the measure, said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., stand on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 12, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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But the Iowa Republican said he expected his resolution to receive unanimous backing.
«I think it unfortunately puts a real spotlight on a chasm we have between those who support law and order and those who are supporting those who undermine it,» Nunn said.
The vote comes as assaults against law enforcement officers climbed to a 10-year high last year, according to an FBI report released Monday. The number of officers killed saw a slight decrease between 2024 and 2025.
Some Democrats likely objected to language in the resolution that criticized left-wing activists for supporting the defund the police movement and sanctuary city policies for putting officers’ safety at risk.
«Whereas rhetoric and policies from leftist activists and progressive politicians seek to defund or dismantle local police departments undermine public safety and place both officers and the communities they serve at greater risk,» the resolution states, in part.
Nunn’s measure also credited the Trump administration’s aggressive law and order policies for contributing to a historic reduction in violent crime, including the United States experiencing its lowest homicide rate in more than a century last year.
«We are at a 125-year low for murder rates, 10-year low for drug overdoses,» Nunn told Fox News Digital. «These are things that good community policing, that our law enforcement officers are doing every day, have had a really positive impact.»
Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The majority of Democrats who supported the resolution are facing competitive re-election contests in November.
However, several vulnerable Democrats, including Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., voted against the measure.
A spokesperson for Vasquez did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Reps. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., and Johnny Olszewski, D-Md., voted present.
The vote came during National Police Week, which honors the service and sacrifice of fallen law enforcement officers across the country.
Law enforcement officers gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2026, for the 38th annual Candlelight Vigil hosted by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund to honor fallen officers, including 109 who died in the line of duty in 2025. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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«To the families of those fallen heroes and those who continue to stand guard in our communities: we have your back,» House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Tuesday at a candlelight vigil to commemorate fallen officers. «We’ll continue to advance policies here that support law enforcement and bring justice to those who seek to harm officers.»
House Republicans are also pitching a slate of anti-crime bills this week, including legislation that would require the attorney general to compile a list of state and local governments that have adopted cashless bail policies. GOP lawmakers have sharply criticized those policies for letting repeat offenders walk free from jail while awaiting trial.
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La historia detrás del descubrimiento de Nagatitan, el dinosaurio más grande del sudeste asiático
El noreste de Tailandia guarda bajo su tierra roja los huesos de criaturas que vivieron hace más de 100 millones de años. En la provincia de Chaiyaphum, un vecino que paseaba cerca de un estanque encontró algo que no esperaba: enormes huesos que asomaban entre el barro.
Esos huesos pertenecían a Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, el dinosaurio de cuello largo más grande hallado en el sudeste asiático. Habitó la zona hace más de 100 millones de años.
Medía 27 metros de largo —casi el tamaño de tres autobuses escolares en fila— y pesaba entre 25 y 28 toneladas, el equivalente a nueve elefantes asiáticos adultos.
El estudio fue publicado en la revista Scientific Reports y fue realizado por un equipo de investigadores de la Universidad Mahasarakham, la Universidad Suranaree de Tecnología, el Museo Sirindhorn de Tailandia y el Colegio Universitario de Londres en el Reino Unido.
Nagatitan pertenece a un linaje exclusivo de Asia, diferente de los grandes saurópodos sudamericanos como Patagotitan o Argentinosaurus. Pero tienen una conexión indirecta: todos pertenecen al grupo más amplio de los titanosauriformes, que se distribuyó por todo el mundo durante el Cretácico.
Antes de este hallazgo, los restos de saurópodos en la Formación Khok Kruat —la capa de roca más joven con fósiles del Mesozoico en Tailandia— eran apenas fragmentos sin nombre.
Tras el hallazgo de los restos fósiles, los investigadores intentaron conocer si el dinosaurio era pariente cercano de otros saurópodos asiáticos o si tenía su propio linaje evolutivo.
También buscaron entender por qué estos animales crecieron tanto durante el Cretácico medio, hace unos 125 millones de años. La respuesta apunta al clima: el aumento de temperaturas y la expansión de ambientes áridos parecen haber favorecido el desarrollo de gigantes herbívoros como Nagatitan.
Lo que encontraron fue que Nagatitan pertenece a un grupo llamado Euhelopodidae, un linaje de saurópodos que solo vivió en Asia. Eso convierte a este hallazgo en una pieza clave para entender cómo evolucionaron estos dinosaurios en la región.
Todo empezó cuando un residente de la zona encontró huesos en la orilla de un estanque durante la temporada seca.
El equipo de investigadores excavó entre 2016 y 2019, y recuperó vértebras, costillas, parte de la pelvis, un húmero y un fémur casi completo. La excavación final se completó en 2024 y los fósiles quedaron en el Museo Sirindhorn.
El análisis de los huesos reveló características que no se habían visto en ningún otro saurópodo. Una de ellas es el hiposfeno —una cuña ósea que une las vértebras entre sí— que en Nagatitan tiene dos formas distintas a lo largo de la columna.
El estudio filogenético, que analiza el árbol familiar de los dinosaurios, ubicó a Nagatitan dentro del grupo Euhelopodidae al usar una matriz de 153 especies y 570 características.
Los investigadores confirmaron que Nagatitan no es pariente cercano de los otros saurópodos del sudeste asiático, Phuwiangosaurus y Tangvayosaurus.
Su peso supera en más de 10 toneladas al de Phuwiangosaurus, el segundo saurópodo tailandés más grande conocido. Algunos huesos estaban deformados o incompletos, lo que limitó la descripción del esqueleto.
“Mi sueño es seguir impulsando el reconocimiento internacional de los dinosaurios del sudeste asiático”, dijo el investigador principal Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul, estudiante de doctorado en Londres y uno de los coautores.
Esperan continuar las excavaciones en la Formación Khok Kruat, donde aún hay una gran colección de fósiles de saurópodos para ser descritos y difundidos.
Tailandia lleva apenas cuatro décadas de investigación paleontológica sistemática y ya acumula 14 especies de dinosaurios nombradas, lo que la posiciona como uno de los países con mayor diversidad fósil en Asia.
Para los investigadores, el dinosaurio Nagatitan es solo el comienzo: el equipo tiene pendiente la descripción formal de varios especímenes que podrían revelar nuevas especies aún desconocidas para la ciencia.
En diálogo con Infobae, el investigador en paleontología del Conicet y la Fundación Félix de Ázara, el doctor Sebastián Apesteguía, explicó que “los primeros titanosauriformes fueron un tipo de dinosaurio saurópodo muy llamativo, especialmente por sus fuertes brazos y sus enormes cuellos de porte oblicuo a casi vertical, con los que se alimentaban de vegetación alta. Esto los diferenciaba de dinosaurios como el Diplodocus, que llevaban el cuello en posición horizontal y comían al ras del suelo».
Apesteguía resaltó: “Quizás el más famoso de estos titanosauriformes sea Brachiosaurus, inmortalizado en una de las primeras escenas de la película Jurassic Park”.
Como su origen es anterior a la separación de los continentes en Laurasia y Gondwana, esos dinosaurios se distribuyeron por todo el mundo y sus fósiles aparecen en Norteamérica, Europa, África y Asia.
“El nuevo Nagatitan se relaciona con formas ya conocidas de Tailandia, todas dentro de la familia de los euhelopódidos, un grupo que evolucionó en aislamiento por la existencia de un mar interior que limitó las conexiones entre Asia y el resto del mundo desde el Jurásico», explicó.
En América del Sur, “los titanosauriformes fueron bastante comunes durante el Cretácico Inferior, hace unos 120 millones de años, y dieron origen a especies como Ligabuesaurus, hallado en Neuquén, Chubutisaurus, en Chubut, y Padillasaurus, en Colombia.
“Es de entre este vasto grupo que evolucionan los titanosaurios, el grupo más importante de saurópodos del Cretácico, el que alcanzó los mayores tamaños y el único que sobrevivió hasta el final para ver caer al asteroide”, afirmó Apesteguía.
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