I read with disbelief the article by Tim Macaluso regarding the new director of the Gandhi Institute. Two sentences jumped out at me. First: "Arun Gandhi resigned from the Institute two years ago, under fire for a Washington Post blog he authored that was critical of Israel." Not exactly. What Gandhi said was that "we have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity."

This anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic slur was what caused Gandhi to resign under pressure. He was an embarrassment to the University and to the Rochester community. He should have left.

What was more disturbing was the quote by the new director, Kit Miller, that there's "no question in my mind that what Arun said on that Washington Post blog was unskillfully said. I wish there could have been a way to work through that." She and Macaluso apparently can't recognize an anti-Semite when they see or hear one. This is frightening.

If Gandhi's comments were made about African Americans, Latinos, or Muslims, we would not have heard that they were "unskillfully said." We would have heard that they were racist. We may find that Ms. Miller's rhetoric may be more skillful than Gandhi's but her comments seem to reveal the same mindset.

MICHAEL SCHNITTMAN, BRIGHTON