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15. Student union in payout over anti-semitic abuse
Sun Jun 26, 2016, 07:33 AM
Jun 2016

Tom Corbyn, son of Jeremy Corbyn, has not yet apologized for his racist behavior....

The student union at York University has become the first in the country to make a public apology and offer a four-figure sum to a Jewish student who complained of anti-semitism.

Zachary Confino, 21, a law student, suffered stress and narrowly missed a first-class degree, after two years of battling with anti-Israeli students at York University.

This week, after the intervention of the universities minister, Jo Johnson, he will accept a written apology from the university’s student union over his treatment.

The apology, brokered by the university’s registrar, will be published online and Confino will receive a sum understood to…


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/student-union-in-payout-over-anti-semitic-abuse-6vj7s6x9k

To those who support BDS, this is your racist movement.

Own it.

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