From today’s D&C
(January 15, 2008) — Arun Gandhi is not backing down from the controversial remarks he posted in a discussion on The Washington Post Web site last week.
Gandhi, a Brighton resident and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence based at the University of Rochester, said in a Web post on Jan. 7 that Jews “overplay” the Holocaust for sympathy.
He also said that “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” in a global culture of violence.
“I stand by what I have written, although I concede that it might not have been couched in diplomatic language,” Gandhi, the grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, wrote in an e-mail to the Democrat and Chronicle Sunday from Mumbai, India.
“If I had had the time to revise what I have written on the blog I might have changed a word here and there but not the content of what I said,” he wrote.
“Why is it that those who have become the victims of hate cannot understand that hate cannot be conquered by more hate, nor violence by more violence? If the rest of the world can accept criticism stoically why is it that the Jews consider themselves to be privileged and beyond scrutiny?” he wrote, noting that he wept during a visit to Auschwitz.
On Friday, UR President Joel Seligman said he was “deeply disappointed” by Gandhi’s remarks and considered the apology Gandhi later posted on the Web site inadequate.
Gandhi’s remarks triggered hundreds of reader comments, many critical. Disturbia hd
After a brief discussion with my sister about Gandhi’s controversial post
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, here are some of our thoughts.
Does anybody know that over 12 million Chinese went through a similar cruel treatment in their own land as 6 million Jews faced in Europe. Have you heard about it as much as we hear about holocaust day in day out?
Don’t get me wrong. The Holocaust was a horrible act that should never be forgotten. But it just seems these days just about anyone can be offended for anything.
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