- Quoted in Brecher, Israel, the Korean War, and China: Images, Decisions, and
Consequences, 39. - Brecher, “Israel and China,” 219.
- For a detailed discussion on the Latin American role, see Glick, Latin Amer-
ica and the Palestine Problem. - At that time, Sharett was out of offi ce and was traveling to the continent in
his personal capacity. For a recent discussion on the India leg of the tour
and his meeting with Prime Minister Nehru, see Caplan, “The 1956 Sinai
Campaign Viewed from Asia.” - For a most authoritative discussion on the British promise, see Stein, The
Balfour Declaration. - During World War II, a large number of Jewish refugees fl ed to India. Dur-
ing the postwar period, there refugees entered from Iraq and Af ghan i stan.
Nevertheless, the number of Jews in India did not exceed sixty thousand. - The only exception being the anti- Jewish violence in Goa along the western
coast during the sixteenth century. This happened when Goa was under
Portuguese occupation and was a fallout of the Spanish Inquisition. - Phrase used in Mudiam, India and the Middle East, 143.
- Among others, see Gordon, “Indian Nationalist Ideas About Palestine and
Israel,” 221– 222. - Brecher, “Israel and China,” 222. According to Philip Holden, “the British
did not ban Nehru’s autobiography in India, but they did proscribe the He-
brew translation in Palestine, fearful of the model it might provide for a very
diff erent nationalism.” Holden, “Other Modernities: National Autobiography
and Globalization,” 90. See also Nehru to Indira Gandhi (August 12, 1944),
in Nehru, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Series I, 13:459– 461. - Stein, The Balfour Declaration, 496– 497.
- Such trends continue still today. Many Muslim leaders see Israel as a threat
not just to the Palestinians in the occupied territories but to the wider Is-
lamic world. A dated but accurate picture of this conspiracy- centric attitude
toward Israel can be found in Hamid, The Unholy Alliance. - The delegation consisted of Jamal al- Husseini (secretary of the Arab Execu-
tive headed by the grand mufti himself ), Muhammad Murad (the mufti of
Haifa), and Ibrahim al- Ansari (one of the sheikhs of al- Aqsa). - Porath, “Al- Hajj Amin al- Husayni, Mufti of Jerusalem,” 154.
- Nearly seventy years later, India’s defense minister Pranab Mukherjee re-
called the mufti connection: “Commitment to the Palestinian cause has
been a bedrock of our foreign policy even before we gained in de pen dence.
In a cable sent to Mufti of Jerusalem on 4th Sept 1937, Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru, who became our fi rst Prime Minister after in de pen dence, had af-
fi rmed, ‘The Indian National Congress sends you greetings and assurance
of full solidarity in the struggle for Palestine In de pen dence.’ ” Mukherjee’s
inaugural speech (January 30, 2006), at the Eighth Asian Security Confer-
ence or ga nized by IDSA. Available online at http:// www .idsa .in/ speeches _
at _idsa/ 8ASCInaugural .htm.
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