Jewish academic sues his ‘institutionally racist’ union

07.07.2011                      05.Tammus, 5771

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Jewish academic sues his ‘institutionally racist’ union

Ronnie Fraser, a doctorate student and director of the Academic Friends of Israel, accuses UCU of breaching UK's Equality Act.

A British academic has initiated legal proceedings against his own trade union, accusing them of anti-Semitism and harassment of its Jewish members after its decision to not recognize an internationally-accepted definition of anti-Semitism.
Ronnie Fraser, a doctorate student and director of the Academic Friends of Israel, has written to the University College Union (UCU), Britain’s largest trade union for academics – representing roughly 120,000 university lecturers – accusing them of breaching the UK’s Equality Act of 2010….