Thread by @HammadSGill

Those who are running trends like #IndiaStandWithIsrael , are negligent of Gandhi's position on the Zionism.

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In 1938, Martin Buber had been asked by David Ben-Gurion, the first PM and founding father of Israel, to put pressure on several well-known moral figures...
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.... to show their public support for Zionism. They felt that approval from Gandhi, as a leader of nonviolent national struggle against imperialism, would be especially useful, and were prepared to leverage his respect for Buber in order to get it.

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At the peak of Zionist movement, Gandhi's statement appeared in the Harijan of November 11, 1938. Gandhi began his piece by saying that all his sympathies lay with the Jews, who as a people had been subjugated to inhuman treatment and persecution for centuries. But he added :
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Gandhi thus questioned the very foundational logic of political Zionism, rejecting in the idea of a Jewish state in the promised land by pointing out that the "Palestine of the Biblical conception isn't a geographical tract". Thus, Gandhi disapproved of the Zionist project...
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...project for both political and religious reasons. The endorsement of that project by the British govt only alienated Gandhi even further. He had no doubt about who Palestine belonged to :

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Gandhi's response to Palestine question contains different layers of meanings, ranging from an ethnical position to political realism. He vehemently rejected the cultural and religious nationalism of Zionism.

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References :

1) Jewish Virtual Library

2) Ten Myths About Israel by @pappe54

3) Is nonviolence a solution to all world's conflict — @washingtonpost