Two Second Cup café locations at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital have been shut down and the franchise owner's contract terminated after the individual was filmed on Friday making "hateful remarks and gestures,

Second Cup Canada is cutting ties with a franchisee operating at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital who was allegedly filmed making hateful and antisemitic comments during a

Second Cup Café has closed one of its franchise locations in Montreal following allegations of hateful remarks and gestures made by the franchisee in a video that was widely circulated online during a pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday.

Second Cup Canada is moving to shut down a franchisee’s cafés located in Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital after they claim the franchisee was filmed apparently chanting the “Final Solution is coming your way” referencing Nazi Germany’s slaughter of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust.

Idit Shamir, the Israeli Consul General in Toronto, thanked Second Cup for acting swiftly. “Imagine chanting ‘The Final Solution is coming’ and throwing a Nazi salute at @Concordia — while running a café at Jewish General Hospital, a place built by Holocaust survivors,” the Toronto-based official wrote on X.