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FIRST READING: He's Canada's number one author, and he's leaving Canada for safety reasons

Gad Saad said constant Montreal death threats ultimately proved untenable

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FIRST READING: He's Canada's number one author, and he's leaving Canada for safety reasons Back to video

At the precise moment that his book Suicidal Empathy is topping world bestseller charts, prominent Canadian academic Gad Saad has announced he is permanently leaving Montreal for the United States, citing escalating threats to his personal safety.

In a May 12 appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Saad said he had accepted a post at the University of Mississippi. He said repeated death threats had made it untenable for him to continue as a marketing professor at Concordia University.

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“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,” he said.

Saad confirmed the move in a Victoria Day social media post,........

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