Here is a nice little Anti-Semitic thread on the Ron Paul Forums, complete with quotes from Revelation saying that the Jews are not really the Jews. Note that the 9/11 Truthers come out of the woodwork and try to pin the blame for that event on the Jews, too. So much for a LOVE rEVOLution. This is one guy we really don't need in office...

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Politics

Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is an anti-Semite. I do not say that lightly, and I am not ashamed to make such a declaration.

I heard Arun speak a few years ago and went away from that talk sickened by the one-sided, ignorant approach he has on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He had recently visited Israel and "Palestine," where he told the Arabs who blow up school buses and shoot rockets at innocent civilians that their actions "could be construed as terrorism." What else could they possibly be? Then he chided Israel's leaders, saying that if the Jewish state had spent as much money providing for the social needs of its Arab neighbors as it has on its army then it would not be in this situation now. No, if Israel had done that it would no longer exist.

Skip forward to last week. Arun posted a short article at the Washington Post and Newsweek about Jews and Israel. Just so you can see what I mean, here is the article in its entirety:

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.

Not only does he accuse Jews as a group of overplaying the systematic murder of more than 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, he then goes on to proclaim Israel as a nation and Jews as a people "the biggest players" in the "culture of violence."

Thankfully, enough decent people have stood up and decried these horrific comments that Arun has tendered his resignation as the president of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester in New York. I only hope that the university actually accepts the invitation and does not try to smooth things over with a nice press conference. From where I sit, Arun Gandhi's words were not a slip of the pen, an unintentional oversight. They indicate his view of Jews as a people group—views that led to the Holocaust and to the myriad other attacks on Jews over the millennia.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Judaism