‘Human error’ blamed for union’s Holocaust email omitting Jews

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#1 Submitted by ... on October 1, 2019 - 8:01pm

The first UCU regional meeting I went to - during a coffee break I got asked with no preamble - "what do you think of the jews?" My response that "that's a weird question to ask someone you've never met" got a rebuttal "so you are zionist!"

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