Monday, June 2, 2008
Via the comments, according to this post at Harry's Place, Arun Gandhi has given an interview to conspiracy-theorist Jeff Rense. We can only hope he had no idea what that site was all about.
Also, in an interview with Rochester City Newspaper, he's come out with this gem:
...the 20 million killed in Russia, the millions killed in Cambodia, the millions killed in Rwanda, and all of these places: you can never say these are Holocausts; these are massacres. That implies that the Holocaust is something that has happened only to the Jews. They say this will never happen again, but what they really mean is this will never happen to them again. They do not seem to be very concerned about this kind of violence taking place in other parts of the world...
This Gandhi seems to be a shockingly ignorant, ill thought-out man. More at Harry's.
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Why are you couching? the man is a straight up left wing intellectual anti-semite.. isn't this the same guy that made the fake apology a few months back?
ignorant? he's not ignorant of anything, he knows exactly what he's saying.
It's terribly ignorant considering how many Jews (and Jewish NGOs) are involved in spreading genocide awareness even when Jews are not the primary target-- even to the extent that it's become routine for anti-Semites to claim that reports of genocide (say in Darfur) amount to Zionist propaganda.
If there is any apologia possible that allows us to portray Mr. Ghandi's statements as a tragic blindspot and not as malice, we should consider that India has a long-standing reputation of never persecuting their Jewish communities, and as a consequence, Indians might not grasp that antisemitism is powerful historical force elsewhere in the world.
The Rochester City Newspaper quote can't be authentic -- when has Arun Gandhi ever spoken three consecutive sentences without namedropping his grandfather?
JSinger.... lol...!
It's funny because it's true.