Air Canada grounded a pilot who shared a series of disturbing antisemitic posts following Hamas’ bloodthirsty attack on the nation, including one of him at a pro-Palestine protest holding a sign that read: “Israel, Hitler is proud of you.”
First Officer Mostafa Ezzo — who piloted an Air Canada-branded B787 plane out of Montreal — also called Israel a “terrorist state” in a series of since-deleted Instagram posts.
“F–k you Israel. Burn in hell,” he wrote in an Instagram Story earlier this week, while another image showed him in his Air Canada uniform donning a Palestinian flag necktie.
Another unsettling image of him at a demonstration pictured him with a sign of a person throwing out the Israeli flag.
“Keeping the world clean,” the unnerving sign said.
Though Ezzo’s social media accounts have since been deleted — along with his antisemitic posts — screenshots of his posts are being shared in threads on X, formerly Twitter.
Ezzo remains on Air Canada’s staff, though he’s been “grounded” and placed on a no-fly list that doesn’t allow him to fly on the airliner as a pilot or a passenger, according to the Toronto Sun.
“We are aware of the unacceptable posts made by an Air Canada pilot. We are taking this matter very seriously, and he was taken out of service on Mon, Oct. 9. We firmly denounce violence in all forms,” the airline tweeted on Tuesday.
Sources told The Sun that after seeing Ezzo’s posts, Air Canada received multiple complaints from Jewish passengers saying they would not feel comfortable boarding a flight with someone who may hold extremely hateful views towards them.
Representatives from Air Canada did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
It’s unclear if Ezzo ever piloted a flight from Montreal to Tel Aviv, though Air Canada has temporarily suspended this route anyway in response to the escalating Israel-Hamas war.
Major US airlines including Delta Air Lines, United, and American Airlines have also ceased service to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
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The move comes after the Federal Aviation Administration and the US State Department each issued statements advising Americans to proceed with “increased caution” when traveling to Israel or the West Bank, citing “terrorism, civil unrest and armed conflict.”