I am sure Jews around the world have long wondered what Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, has to say about Jewish identity. According to the Washington Post/Newsweek website that just interviewed him on the subject, Gandhi “is president and co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence… [and] a regular participant in Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and other Rhodes Scholars.”

A few snippets are worth the price of entry. On the Holocaust:

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 g uilty 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.

Get it? The Jews’ problem is that they cannot “move on.” On Jewish identity:

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.

Why is this starting to sound familiar? And finally, on Israel’s right to self-defense:

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.

At what point does this qualify as anti-Semitism?

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