Gandhi grandson resigns after criticism of anti-Semitic article
2008-01-18
Gandhi grandson resigns after criticism of anti-Semitic article
Judea Pearl goes straight to the chairman of the Washington Post
By Brad A. Greenberg, Senior Writer
The president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester resigned Thursday amid criticism of a short opinion piece he wrote for The Washington Post online titled "Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence."
Penned by Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi, the article was widely condemned. The essay was first posted on Jan. 7 on WashingtonPost.com's On Faith blog, a commentary consortium of some of the world's leading religious scholars. The blog's editors, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham published an apology today (Jan 18).
"As 'On Faith' readers know, a post by Arun Gandhi on January 7 has produced an enormous response from readers who found Gandhi's initial remarks anti-Semitic and his subsequent apology insufficient," the apology states. "When we undertook this project over a year ago, we wrote that our goal was to shed light on a subject
Among the voices of protest was that of Judea Pearl, president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. Pearl, an op-ed columnist for The Jewish Journal whose son was killed by Islamic extremists at least in part because he was Jewish, directed his protest to Donald Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Co., the text of which is reprinted on the blog.
"In his final moments," Pearl wrote, "Danny told his captors on camera: 'My father is Jewish, My mother is Jewish, I am Jewish,' and, as President Bush said in the White House last month: 'These words have become a source of inspiration to Americans of all faiths.'
"My son Daniel died mighty proud of his Jewish identity. He, like the millions of decent and peace-seeking Israelis, and Americans who proudly carry on their Jewish heritage, did not see his identity as 'dependent on violence' as the title of Gandhi's article implies.
"Mr. Graham, the article your editors have allowed to be posted is a painful insult to everything Daniel stood for, to everything America stands for, and to every decent person inspired by Daniel's words.
"Too many people were killed, abused or dispossessed in the past century by words of irresponsible authors, often disguised as scholars or humanitarians, who pointed fingers at, and blamed one segment of society for the ills and maladies in the world.
"Arun Gandhi did just that."
Gandhi, who is in India, could not be reached for comment. His three-paragraph article, published Jan. 7, accused Jews of using the Holocaust to promote a culture of violence.
"The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. But, it seems to me the Jews today not only want the Germans to feel guilty but the whole world must regret what happened to the Jews," Gandhi wrote. "The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on the regret turns into anger. The Jewish identity in the future appears bleak."
Gandhi concluded: "We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity."
Reaction was sharp and immediate. More than 400 people commented, some supporting, others opposing, the article. Four days after the article was published, Rochester President Joel Seligman said he was "deeply disappointed" by Gandhi's comments.
"I vehemently disagree with his singling out of Israel and the Jewish people as to blame for the 'culture of violence' that he believes is eventually going to destroy humanity," Seligman said in a statement. "This kind of stereotyping is inconsistent with our core values and would be inappropriate when applied to any race, any religion, any nationality, or either gender."
Gandhi was expected to return next week to meet with the Seligman and board of the Institute for Nonviolence. (The institute did not return calls for comment.)
In a brief phone interview, Pearl, whose most recent column referred to Arun Gandhi as a "cult of the superficial," said he first called Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, when he read Gandhi's comments. The ADL had already issued a statement saying even Gandhi's apology was offensive and did not ease concerns that he believed Israel and Jews propagate a "culture of violence."
"This outrageous libel of an entire people and of a country that wants nothing more than to live in peace and security with its neighbors -- and has said so repeatedly -- is mind-boggling coming from someone so respected in the field of nonviolence education and advocacy," the ADL said in a statement.
Pearl, however, wanted an apology from The Washington Post, whose chairman he met four years ago at an event honoring journalists who had lost their lives in the field.
"Who reads the Web site of the ADL? People read the Post," Pearl said. "And I worried that they would get the impression, that it was stylish to make anti-Jewish remarks and anti-coexistence remarks."
Pearl (photo) said he believed that Graham would understand the disparity between his son's life and death and Gandhi's accusations that Jews thrived on a violent identity.
"His pronouncements reflect that conflict between the theory he wants to abide by and reality," Pearl said of Gandhi. "You can find him making statements like two and two is five on one day, and two and two is four on another day. I was not surprised he was willing to apologize one day, resign on another and tomorrow I would not be surprised if he repeated his allegations."
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=18799
Is he a professor at the University AND the president of the Institute for Nonviolence?
In which case, which post did he resign from? What is he returning to the Institute to discuss?
Of course, Pearl's complaints ring so hollow that they hardly merit a response.
Assuming arguendo that Daniel Pearl was killed "because he was Jewish" and not because he was a spy or because he was about to expose the crimes of some nasty individuals in very high places, that fact alone does not miraculously transform ALL of Jewry into a nonviolent culture.
Anyone in the world with eyes can see that zionist Jews are as VIOLENT as they get, notwithstanding Daniel Pearl's unfortunate demise.
Another bogus, yet effective attempt to censor criticism of israeli brutality.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Because you can't tell the Joos what to do, they tell us
Washington Post
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/arun_gandhi/2008/01/jewish_id...
Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence
Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience -- a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. But, it seems to me the Jews today not only want the Germans to feel guilty but the whole world must regret what happened to the Jews. The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on the regret turns into anger.
The Jewish identity in the future appears bleak. Any nation that remains anchored to the past is unable to move ahead and, especially a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs. In Tel Aviv in 2004 I had the opportunity to speak to some Members of Parliament and Peace activists all of whom argued that the wall and the military build-up was necessary to protect the nation and the people. In other words, I asked, you believe that you can create a snake pit -- with many deadly snakes in it -- and expect to live in the pit secure and alive? What do you mean? they countered. Well, with your superior weapons and armaments and your attitude towards your neighbors would it not be right to say that you are creating a snake pit? How can anyone live peacefully in such an atmosphere? Would it not be better to befriend those who hate you? Can you not reach out and share your technological advancement with your neighbors and build a relationship?
Apparently, in the modern world, so determined to live by the bomb, this is an alien concept. You don't befriend anyone, you dominate them. We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity.
Now a GANDHi is Aint_shamite?? Gimme a break! The response by the shamites is typical, riddled with inconsistency, disparity and lies.
Definately not worth a point by point.
Arun Gandhi will be back, like the hand of God.
"This outrageous libel of an entire people and of a country that wants nothing more than to live in peace and security with its neighbors -- and has said so repeatedly -- is mind-boggling coming from someone so respected in the field of nonviolence education and advocacy," the ADL said in a statement.
hmmmm...
From: http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/5387
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
– David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.”
– Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
“[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs.”
– Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, “Begin and the ‘Beasts,”‘ New Statesman, June 25, 1982.
“Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them.”
– Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.
“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.”
– Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online
“Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.”
– David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.
So what's new. Jesus and hundreds others were crucified for speaking the truth about Jewish violence, why should a Gandhi be spared that fate?
Prophets, saints and sages who tell the truth about Jewish racism, violence and warmongering will continue to be crucified as long as people are willing to be cowed by them and shut up.
Gandhi should have stood his ground and not apologised. Now he looks like a fool and on top of that he lost his position at the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester.
Ironically the position at Mohandas Gandhi Institute for non-violence will be filled by a violent Jew.
I have 2 radio shows lined up tonight, second one with a Vatican did it guy Leo Zagami, 33rd degree Mason, ex lots of things but the first show will be based on the crimes of the joos as always.
Shit, as bullhorns says, You Just Can't Make This Up.
I'm livid, crime after crime after crime and we are such a small group fighting back. What is it with the sheeple? Oups nearly forgot the 6 million, feck 50 year propaganda still at work.
Open invitation to this site's owner to come on and chat anytime we can organise it.
Og
Thank you OGNiR, for all that you've done. I've enjoyed the ConCen torrents for quite some time :)
Watch yourself with anyone who claims to be EX_crime syndicate, just remember the TRUTH % FACTOR.
Peace Bro!
Mr. Gandhi’s original post is brief and reasonable.
Readers wrote 438 comments. The overwhelming majority agree with Gandhi. A few Jews whined because their evil had been exposed, so the president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence resigned.
Is the USA enslaved, or what?
Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience -- a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. But, it seems to me the Jews today not only want the Germans to feel guilty but the whole world must regret what happened to the Jews. The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on the regret turns into anger.
The Jewish identity in the future appears bleak. Any nation that remains anchored to the past is unable to move ahead and, especially a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs. In Tel Aviv in 2004 I had the opportunity to speak to some Members of Parliament and Peace activists all of whom argued that the wall and the military build-up was necessary to protect the nation and the people. In other words, I asked, you believe that you can create a snake pit -- with many deadly snakes in it -- and expect to live in the pit secure and alive? What do you mean? they countered. Well, with your superior weapons and armaments and your attitude towards your neighbors would it not be right to say that you are creating a snake pit? How can anyone live peacefully in such an atmosphere? Would it not be better to befriend those who hate you? Can you not reach out and share your technological advancement with your neighbors and build a relationship?
Apparently, in the modern world, so determined to live by the bomb, this is an alien concept. You don't befriend anyone, you dominate them. We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity.
by Arun Gandhi; president and co-founder of
the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.
The blog's editors, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham published an apology today (Jan 18).
Of course they did, they think they know what's best for themselves, cowards!
300,000 Jews X 6.66 = 2 Million Palestinians; dead.
http://wiki.majorityrights.com/holocaust
The Israel Hasbara Committee website listed the Washington Post as a "hotbed of prejudice" long before this incident.
See here for a Promoting Responsibility in Middle East Reporting (PRIMER) flyer calling for a boycott of The Post. CAMERA also accuses the New York Times of an anti-Israel bias, as if they're both not already sickeningly pro-Israel.
Obviously the entire MSM being under the control of Zionists isn't enough. Jews won't be happy until all criticism of Israel is outlawed and punishable by death.