The words “Kill the Jews” were found scrawled inside a building at Concordia University in Montreal over the weekend, marking the latest antisemitic incident in Canada.
The vandalism, which included the words “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” was discovered in a campus bathroom.
“It is categorically unacceptable and antisemitism has no place on our campus,” a university spokesperson told JNS on Saturday.
Yesterday at Concordia University, a bathroom on campus was found with “Kill all Jews” written on the wall. That is a direct threat to Jewish students. It is the clearest picture yet of the campus environment they are being asked to live and learn in.
— B'nai Brith Canada (@bnaibrithcanada) November 15, 2025
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Bnai Brith Canada said the message was “a direct threat to Jewish students” and accused the university of creating an environment where “hate has become normalized.”
“Jewish students at Concordia are entering buildings where open hostility is now routine,” the organization posted to X on Sunday. “They hear assurances of safety while the reality around them shows the opposite. Concordia’s leadership has allowed this problem to escalate and has not taken the action required to protect its own students.”
In October, chaos engulfed Montreal’s downtown area as riot police clashed with anti-Israel protesters outside both Concordia University and McGill University. Montreal police said they had been aware of planned demonstrations and had deployed units to “ensure everyone’s safety.”
Concordia earlier announced the closure of its Sir George Williams downtown campus due to “threats of extreme disruption,” according to an email from president and vice chancellor Graham Carr to students and staff obtained by Canada’s National Post newspaper.
A day earlier, the Israeli Foreign Ministry sharply condemned student groups at Concordia for planning a “shameful” pro-Hamas rally on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
“Concordia University student groups are organizing a rally this October 7, celebrating the massacre and atrocities committed by Palestinians, glorifying terrorism under the banner of ‘resistance,’” the Foreign Ministry posted on X. “These groups don’t support peace or justice. They’re celebrating murder, rape & the kidnapping of innocent civilians, carried out by Hamas terrorists—under the protection of a Canadian university. Terror has no place on campus.”
