- mahatma gandhi and the jewish national home 277
- Among others, see India, Ministry of External Aff airs, India and Palestine,
11; Agwani, Contemporary West Asia, 152, 220; Heptulla, Indo- West Asian
Relations, 153. - Congress Marches Ahead, January 1996– December 1997, 199– 200. This for-
mulation is inaccurate. Gandhi talked of Arabs and not Palestinians. Also
see Foreign Minister Natwar Singh’s speech at Jamia Milia Islamia on
October 6, 2004, available online at http:// meaindia .nic .in/ speech/ 2004/
10/ 06ss02 .htm. - Shourie, The Only Fatherland.
- In its obituary for the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, People’s Democracy,
the offi cial organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) declared, “in
1938... Mahatma Gandhi denounced the illegal occupation of Arab land.
Since then India had always stood behind the Palestinians who were fi ght-
ing for their freedom.” “Left Salutes Comrade Arafat,” People’s Democracy
(November 28, 2004), available online at http:// pd .cpim .org/ 2004/ 1128/
11282004 _arafat %20condolence .htm. - Jaff erlot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India, 87.
- Harijan (November 26, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi.
- Shimoni, Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Jews, 12.
- Ibid., 11.
- Among others, see Shimoni, Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Jews; Chatterjee,
Gandhi and His Jewish Friends; and Gordon, “Indian Nationalist Ideas About
Palestine and Israel,” 221– 222. - Harijan (November 26, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi.
- Ibid.
- Shimoni, Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Jews, 12.
- Harijan (May 27, 1939).
- For detailed discussions on the Khilafat struggle, see Neimeijer, The Khila-
fat Movement in India, 1919– 1924; and Minault, The Khilafat Movement. - Young India (March 23, 1921), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
19:472. - Young India (April 6, 1921) , in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi, 19:530.
- Ibid. Emphasis added.
- Shimoni, Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Jews, 24.
- Chatterjee, Gandhi and His Jewish Friends, 164.
- Harijan (November 26, 1938), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi,
68:137. - Harijan (May 27, 1939), in Gandhi, The Collected Works of Gandhi, 69:289.
Emphasis added. - They include “Gandhi and the Jews,” The Jewish Advocate (Bombay) (De-
cember 2, 1938); “Jewish Satyagraha,” The Jewish Advocate; “Mr. Gandhi on
the Jewish Problem,” The Jewish Tribune (Bombay) (December 1938); “Open
Letter to Mahatma Gandhi,” The Jewish Advocate (December 30, 1938); “Mr.
Gandhi and the Jews,” The Jewish Tribune (June 1939); and “We Are Treated
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