I had a look at Edit->Keyboard shortcuts in Gnome Terminal and noticed that the paste key was bound to Super+e. This was the problem. When I changed it to Ctrl+Shift+E, the e key worked fine again. Changing it to Super+e broke it once again. Look like a genuine bug in Gnome Terminal.
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