GANDHI'S GRANDSON UNLOADS ON THE JEWS

Pure Antisemitism at the Washington Post (LGF)
In the Washington Post, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi says Jews have over-exploited the Holocaust, and they’re going to end up destroying the world. Yes, really: Arun Gandhi: Point: 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.

And the reader comments for this repulsive article are absolutely vile; the antisemites crawled out of the woodwork for this one. Remember that the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz criticized blogs, and especially LGF, for over the top comments—when the comments routinely posted at his newspaper are orders of magnitude worse than anything you’ll find at most blogs.

OF COURSE, THE MAHATMA HIMSELF WAS NO GREAT SHAKES WHEN IT CAME TO THE HOLOCAUST:

The Gandhi Nobody Knows by Richard Grenier (Commentary)
I feel all Jews sitting emotionally at the movie 'Gandhi' should be apprised of the advice that the Mahatma offered their coreligionists when faced with the Nazi peril: they should commit collective suicide. If only the Jews of Germany had the good sense to offer their throats willingly to the Nazi butchers' knives and throw themselves into the sea from cliffs they would arouse world public opinion, Gandhi was convinced, and their moral triumph would be remembered for "ages to come." If they would only pray for Hitler (as their throats were cut, presumably), they would leave a "rich heritage to mankind." Although Gandhi had known Jews from his earliest days in South Africa--where his three staunchest white supporters were Jews, every one--he disapproved of how rarely they loved their enemies. And he never repented of his recommendation of collective suicide. Even after the war, when the full extent of the Holocaust was revealed, Gandhi told Louis Fischer, one of his biographers, that the Jews died anyway, didn't they? They might as well have died significantly.