{"id":2010,"date":"2008-01-19T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2008-01-19T20:04:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T04:04:37","slug":"gandhi-grandson-resigns-after-criticism-of-anti-semitic-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi grandson resigns after criticism of anti-Semitic article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/home\/preview.php?id=18799\">Brad A. Greenberg writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester resigned Thursday amid criticism of a short opinion piece he wrote for The Washington Post online titled &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/arun_gandhi\/2008\/01\/jewish_identity_in_the_past.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish Identity Can&#8217;t Depend on Violence<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Penned by Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. &quot;Mahatma&quot; Gandhi, the article was widely condemned. The essay was first posted on Jan. 7 on WashingtonPost.com&#8217;s On Faith blog, a commentary consortium of some of the world&#8217;s leading religious scholars. The blog&#8217;s editors, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2008\/01\/gandhi_post_regrettable.html\" target=\"_blank\">published an apology today<\/a> (Jan 18).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As &ldquo;On Faith&rdquo; readers know, a post by Arun Gandhi on January 7 has produced an enormous response from readers who found Gandhi&rsquo;s initial remarks anti-Semitic and his subsequent apology insufficient. When we undertook this project over a year ago, we wrote that our goal was to shed light on a subject&mdash;religion&mdash;that too often generates heat. The Gandhi post failed to comply with that mission, and we can only ask our readers to extend &ldquo;On Faith&rdquo; a measure of forbearance and tolerance as the site endeavors to conduct a civil and illuminating conversation. We regret the initial posting, and we apologize for the episode.&quot; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad A. Greenberg writes: The president of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester resigned Thursday amid criticism of a short opinion piece he wrote for The Washington Post online titled &quot;Jewish Identity Can&#8217;t Depend on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}