Reply #4: Not surprising at all. His sainted grandfather [View All]

[henank]

also thought the Jews should roll over and die rather than fight back or try and survive in the Holocaust.

Gandhism

GANDHI ON THE HOLOCAUST
• “Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews
should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown
themselves into the sea from cliffs.”
»Reference: George Orwell’s “Reflections on Gandhi”, Partisan Review, January 1949
• As to whether the Jews should have committed “collective sucide” by offering
themselves to Hitler: “Yes, that would have been heroism.”
»Reference: George Orwell’s “Reflections on Gandhi”, Partisan Review, January 1949

The grandson seems to have taken his grandfather's extreme pacifism to the absurd degree and in seeking extreme pacifism, rejected self-defense. In fact he cannot even recognize self-defence and therefore jsutifies aggression by sympathising with the terrorists.