The Acorn union has launched an internal investigation and apologised to the Jewish community after a person attempting to join its Manchester branch was sent two Instagram messages saying “no time for Zionists” and “we are a pro-Palestine organisation”.
Acorn bills itself as “a community-based union of working class people — tenants, workers, residents”, which fights to give low-income communities a better life.
The man who attempted to join is Jewish and when he received the rejection messages, told his friend Stephane Savary, the national vice-chair of the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM).
Mr Savary challenged Acorn on Twitter, adding that not only had those who sent the rejection known his friend was Jewish, but that they had gone on to block him on Instagram.
