Gandhi's Grandson Resigns in Firestorm Over 'Anti-Semitic' Remarks
India Post, Posted: Jan 30, 2008
The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi resigned as president of the board of a conflict resolution institute that he founded, after writing an online essay on a Washington Post blog calling Jews and Israel “the biggest players” in global violence, India Post reports. In his resignation letter to the board of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Arun Gandhi wrote that his essay was “hurtful and contrary to the principles of nonviolence.” In the essay, he said that Jewish identity is “locked into the holocaust experience,” which Jews “overplay…to the point that it begins to repulse friends.” The posting drew 438 comments. Gandhi later apologized on the site.
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