Arun Gandhi Resigns From Peace Institute -- Grandson of Famed Pacifist Steps Down After Remarks On Online Forum

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › January 28, 2008

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Arun Gandhi has resigned from the institute he founded in Memphis in 1991 and moved to New York State last year.

A grandson of the Indian pacifist Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi, he resigned after drawing condemnation for writing in an online forum that Israel and Jews "are the biggest players" in a global culture of violence.

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Arun Gandhi Resigns From Peace Institute -- Grandson of Famed Pacifist Steps Down After Remarks On Online Forum

Gandhi, 73, said Friday the board of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence based at the University of Rochester had accepted his offer a day earlier to st...

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