OH, CANADA: Concordia tight-lipped on ‘kill them all’ post about ‘Zionists.’

Someone presenting themselves as a Montreal professor took to social media on the weekend to suggest a peculiar approach to dealing with “hardcore Zionists.” The advice: “Kill them all.”

The comment was made in response to a post on the Instagram account for Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME). That post features an image of McGill University, with text referring to a vote by the faculty association endorsing a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel: “BDS Victory: McGill Faculty Vote to Endorse the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel.”

One user, whose account appears to share a name with a Concordia University professor, commented: “My hardcore Zionist colleagues (kill them all, as they say) from the math department at McGill will roll on the floor tearing their shirts and screaming antisemitism. Well, as they do everyday.” The comment ends with three vomiting emojis.

National Post has chosen not to name the professor at this time because the university has refused to verify whether the person presenting themselves as a faculty member is employed by Concordia.

That’s the right thing for a paper like the National Post to do, but I take the university’s silence as a tacit admission that the professor is who he or she claims to be.