The president of CUPE Ontario is under fire from some of the union’s Jewish members for reposting a social media post on Facebook.
Fred Hahn shared a video Sunday of a diver at the Paris Games. It shows the athlete with a prominent Star of David on their arm jumping off the diving board before turning into a bomb that drops on innocent civilians. The narrator in the video calls the diver an ‘Olympic champion.’
“I was horrified at the end. I started to cry at the time, even just thinking about it makes me want to cry because this is his view of Jewish people,” said Carrie Silverberg, a Local 1734 executive member who lives in the GTA.
Hahn is also CUPE’s national vice-president, representing 750,000 members across Canada.
“It feels like a personal attack against me and my entire community,” Silverberg explained.
“To see the president of my …