India\'s Israel Policy - P. R. Kumaraswamy

46 the congress party and the yishuv Nehru, who by then had emerged as the principal spokesperson of the party on foreign policy ...

A month before the Tripuri session, in February 1939, the Congress Party managed to pass a nonbinding resolution in the Legislat ...

They [that is, the Jews] had no home or nation, and everywhere they went they were treated as unwelcome and undesirable stranger ...

so, and the Arabs must not be crushed and suppressed in their own homelands.”^27 He frequently reiterated this as late as April ...

of the Congress Party was mixed. It adopted no formal resolution on the Jewish problem that plagued Eu rope or on the Holocaust. ...

Due to opposition from various quarters, however, “a large- scale emigra- tion of the Jews to India could not be achieved.”^36 T ...

the Jews in India?... It was not from the point of view of helping Jews that I considered this question, though such help was de ...

In short, the Indian leadership, comprising the Congress Party and its two stalwarts, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, were ...

Jewish problem in the non- European and non- Christian Palestine. Thus, predominantly Christian Latin America played a crucial r ...

a simple explanation of a complex reality. While the Arab nationalists were fi ghting the British in Palestine, they felt that t ...

Finally, unlike the Arabs, the Zionists lacked an eff ective and infl uen- tial constituency within India. Even individuals who ...

Israeli leaders began to pay serious and concerted attention to Asia in the form of a twelve- nation Asian tour undertaken by Mo ...

ignored Eu rope but simply that over time the Zionists became more U.S.- centric. India did not fi t into any of these categorie ...

toward the Jewish state has come under severe criticism, both in Israel and elsewhere.^66 Idealism is the most common explanatio ...

handed over to non- Muslims. This became a dominant issue during the fi nal days of the Ottoman Empire, when Eu ro pe an powers ...

with Hitler in November 1941 rarely fi gures in Indian discourses on the Middle East. Besides the leaders of the Congress Party, ...

contacts were not confi ned to Gandhi, Nehru, and other se nior Congress Party leaders alone but encompassed the leaders of Hind ...

cially Gandhi and Nehru. Both Olsvanger^93 and the Zionist activist Olga Feinberg,^94 who was working for the Women’s Internatio ...

explains the pro- Zionist views expressed by a number of Western- educated Indian intellectuals. As early as 1909, Weizmann was ...

genuine eff orts but despite them. And second, in terms of their sheer number, depth, and diversity, Zionist contacts with and e ...