Zionists Out of the Peace Movement: Arun Gandhi Folds

Zionists Out of the Peace Movement

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. —Ludwig von Mises, Human Action (4th ed.), p. 832.

The General Assembly ... Determines that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. —UN GA Resolution 3379 (XXX).

There are three distinguished in fierceness: Israel among the nations, the dog among animals, and the cock among birds. —Rabbi Simeon, Tractate Bezah 25b, Babylonian Talmud (Quincentenary ed.), Soncino Pr.

Where is it possible to find a group of Jews who are committed to Israel, and whose children are likely to honor that commitment? The answer is, in a synagogue on the Sabbath. —Elliott Abrams, "Can Jews Survive?"

It is a fact that the Jewish religion is above all Jewish nationalism ... One must be a Jew first and a human being second. —Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem, as quoted in The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time by Moshe Menuhin.

Why, then, does truth generate hatred ... unless it be that truth is loved in such a way that those who love something else besides her wish that to be the truth which they do love. ... Therefore, they hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love in place of the truth. —Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Bk. X, Ch. XXIII, 34)

Friday, January 25, 2008

Arun Gandhi Folds

As I pointed out two weeks ago on this blog, Arun Gandhi is under the gun for speaking truth to power and holding up a mirror to the Jewish community. Echoing the remarks of Idith Zertal and other Israeli Jews, Gandhi said "Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience ..." and "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." I closed my post by saying: "Let's hope he stays strong and keeps speaking truth to power."

Now, comes news from The Telegraph of Calcutta, India that "America’s omnipotent Jewish community has forced Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, to resign from the institute he founded in the US 17 years ago to spread the message of the Father of the Nation." The Telegraph goes on to note the global aspects of the row:

New Delhi cannot afford to even tangentially annoy the American Jewish community because successive Indian governments have relied on this community for at least 15 years to bring Indo-US relations to its present health. The nuclear deal between India and the US would not have got to its present phase of implementation without the active involvement of the American Jewish community in its favour.
Arun’s offer to resign follows several days of grovelling apologies by him, by the moderators of the online discussion on the Post website and defensive statements by University of Rochester president Joel Seligman for having associated with the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-violence.

Hundreds of messages assailing Arun and The Washington Post were posted on the website, most of them clearly by Jews. The powerful American Jewish Committee’s executive director David A. Harris pre-empted any Indian reaction by hinting in a statement that India was being ungrateful for all that his organisation did for New Delhi.

“We are proud at the American Jewish Committee to have played a vital role in nurturing the India-Israel bilateral relationship, as well as strengthening the bonds between American Jews and Indian Americans,” Harris said.

Sadly, the AP confirms yesterday that Gandhi's resignation was accepted and that he has capitulated to the Shylocks clamoring for a pound of his flesh.

Labels: Arun Gandhi, holocaust, identity, Jewish violence, Zionism

// posted by PeaceMonger @ 1/25/2008 09:58:00 PM

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So much for the Ghandi legacy of peaceful civil disobedience in the face of state tyranny. This guy was sweating bullets all the way to his knees, just upon a glance from the thought police.

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Anonymous : Monday, January 28, 2008 3:35:00 PM

This is what his Grandfather had to say about WWII

“the Jews [in Europe] should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs."

So forgive me if I don't believe the Ghandi family's message about Israel and Palestine has any credibility.

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Anonymous : Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:31:00 PM