Professor Saad Received In-Person Death Threat While Walking With Nine-Year-Old Son

What was said

"A guy came up to me, I was walking with my then, so 2022, so 4 years ago, he must have been 9. I was walking with my 9-year-old, 10-year-old son, and this guy looks at me, he goes, 'Are you Gad Saad?' 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.'"

In 2022, Gad Saad was directly threatened in person while walking with his young son near Concordia University in Montreal. Police investigated but declined to show Saad a lineup of suspects because the individual was Black and authorities deemed the process potentially racist. The incident contributed to Saad taking a two-year leave from Concordia and eventually accepting a position at the University of Mississippi, citing safety concerns as a high-profile Jewish professor.