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Students play down memorial day row

October 23, 2014 10:35

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Naomi Firsht,

Naomi Firsht

1 min read

The student union at Goldsmiths College has denied it rejected Holocaust Memorial Day.

A motion to mark HMD, as well as days commemorating genocides in Armenia and Ukraine, was voted down by 60 to one.

Student Colin Cortbus, who put forward the proposal, said its rejection was "sad for democracy and tolerance".

At the meeting, education officer Sarah El-alfy said the motion was too "eurocentric". But union president Howard Littler told the JC that it had failed because it was not written in the proper form.

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