- mahatma gandhi and the jewish national home 279
- Shimoni, Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Jews, 40.
- Zangwill, “The Return to Palestine,” 627.
- Kallenbach to Weizmann (July 4, 1937), CZA, S25/3587.
- Statement given by Mahatma Gandhi to Kallenbach on Zionism in July
1937. Emphasis added. - Harijan (November 26, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
68:140. - This contrasted with the position of the Zionists toward the war. They were
caught between the need to fi ght Nazism in Eu rope while opposing the
White Paper of 1939, which repudiated British commitments to the Balfour
Declaration. Hence they adopted a unique posture “to fi ght the War as if
there is no White Paper and to fi ght the White Paper as if there is no war.” - Harijan (June 21, 1942), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi, 76:216.
- Resolution adopted at the Haripura annual session of the Congress in Feb-
ruary 1938. Zaidi and Zaidi, eds., Encyclopedia INC, 11:427. - Jawaharlal Nehru to Olsvanger (September 25, 1936), CZA, S25/3583.
- Young India (April 6, 1921), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi, 19:530.
- Young India (May 25, 1921), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
20:129. Emphasis added. - For the text of the resolution adopted at the Gaya Congress of 1922, see Zaidi
and Zaidi, eds., Encyclopedia INC, 8:542. - Fischer, Gandhi and Stalin, 42. Emphasis added. However, for a diff erent
version of what Gandhi told Silverman, see Jansen, Zionism, Israel, and Asian
Nationalism, 177– 179. It should be remembered, however, that Fischer’s
work was published while Mahatma was still alive, whereas Jansen’s version
came out in 1971, more than two de cades after the Mahatma’s death. - Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi, 87:262.
- Ibid., 87:417. Emphasis added.
- Ibid., 88:48.
- Harijan (November 26, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
68:138– 139. - Harijan, (December 17, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
68:191– 192. - Harijan (November 26, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
68:140. - In 1939, communicating with a Muslim friend, he remarked: “My mind goes
back to the days of Khilafat agitation... when at a meeting of the Muslim
League before 1920 I asked for supreme sacrifi ce, two or three names were
given... but I believed that many would come forward at the right time. And
they did. But looking back upon those days I see that I compromised nonvio-
lence. I was satisfi ed with mere abstention from physical violence.” Harijan
(June 17, 1939), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi, 69:314. - One could draw a parallel between the Arab opposition to Jewish immigra-
tion to Palestine and the current Israeli opposition to the unrestricted Pales-
tinian right of return to their homes.
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