Gad Saad

So all of those threats were online.

But then we had to file with Concordia a Montreal police report and so on.

In 2022, I had in-person threat.

So a guy came up to me.

I was walking with my den.

So 2022, so four years ago, he must have been nine.

I was walking with my nine-year-old, 10-year-old son.

And this guy looks at me, he goes, are you Gadsad?

I said, yes.

Then he kind of composes himself to kind of deal with the hatred he feels.

And he goes, I'm not going to do anything to you out of respect for your son today.

And so then the detectives got the footage of that because it was outside of the building.

And then, by the way, they didn't want to show me a lineup of things, of possible things, because it would be racist to do so.

So the process of a police lineup, which is the most fundamental mechanism of identifying a perpetrator, was viewed as racist because the guy who levied the death threat to me was black.

I think he was maybe Somali.

He looked Somali.

So I took a two-year leave from Concordia University and I'm now leaving.

In large part because it became difficult for me, if not impossible, to be a high-profile Jewish professor who supports the right of Israel to exist.

It's a slow death.

You have to have the imagination to extrapolate into a distant future.