Following Arun Gandhi's anti-Semitic rant in the Washington Post On Faith section and later apology, the Anti-Defamation League has stated that the apology was not enough as it lacks a “retraction of the suggestion that Jews "overplay" the Holocaust to manipulate the international community”.
The ADL also notes that the apology does not retract at all his claim that that "Israel and the Jews are the biggest players" in promoting a "culture of violence that is eventually going to destroy humanity."
Gandhi's statement is having an impact elsewhere; the President of the University of Rochester where Arun Gandhi's M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence is located vehemently disagrees with the Gandhi’s statement and intends to discuss the matter with him on his return from India.
Others expressing outrage include Professor Judea Pearl, mother of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl who wrote a letter to the Washington Post’s CEO. She takes aim at Gandhi’s semi-apology:
Gandhi and the Post cannot be exonerated by making distinctions between "Israel policies," "Israel existence", "Judaism" or "Jewishness", as Gandhi has attempted to do in his semi-apology. The title of Gandhi's article reads "Jewish identity," and one's identity is an inextricable part of one's psyche and being. Your editors approved of (perhaps even composed) this title, and they understood exactly what it means, who is being blamed for the world's violence, and how dangerous the consequences of these words may be. The hatred that killed my son Daniel was created by wreckless incitements of this sort, propagated and aided by the very media of which he was a proud member.
In light of these complaints the editors of the Washington Post On Faith section issued their own apology stating:
When we undertook this project over a year ago, we wrote that our goal was to shed light on a subject—religion—that too often generates heat. The Gandhi post failed to comply with that mission.
It’s very disturbing to note that many reader comments attacked the On Faith editors’ apology and defended Gandhi. I guess hateful people like to stick together.