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{weblog_name} - Gandhi’s Self-Inflicted Wound
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On January 9, I blogged about an awful post on the Washington Post’s website by Arun Gandhi, grandson of the famous Indian preacher of non-violence. Bizarrely, he declared that Israel harps too much on the Holocaust and should simply lay down its arms to get along better with its neighbors. The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree Arun was the president of M.K. Gandhi Institute. Some called his remarks anti-Semitic; I called them plain ignorant. Well guess what? Arun Gandhi offered his resignation and it was accepted on January 24. I welcome that news because there is no room for such uneducated discourse, especially from the leader of a “non-violent” institute. My only concern is that the announcement came from Joel Seligman, President of the University of Rochester, home of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. Seligman is Jewish… read more