CUPE’s Fred Hahn refuses to step down amid resignation calls [Video]

CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn says he fully rejects “the charge of antisemitism,” and said he will “continue to fight side by side” with his union members despite calls for his resignation by the national executive board.

On Tuesday, the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ (CUPE) National Executive Board passed a motion expressing its lost confidence in the national union’s general vice-president following a recent Facebook post he shared.

Earlier this month, Hahn shared a video of an Olympic diver with a prominent Star of David on their arm jumping off a diving board before turning into a bomb that falls on civilians. The narrator in the video calls the diver an “Olympic champion.”

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Days later, Hahn said he took the video down and said his intention in posting it was to shine a light on the “double standard” that the Russian Federation was barred from participating at this year’s Olympic Games.

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