Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Photographer Margaret Bourke-White's famous picture of Gandhi reading the newspaper in front of his spining wheel.
Gandhi writing in Mombai in 1938
Teaching the Satyagrahis
Newspaper coverage of the "Salt March" to Dandi in 1930
Satyagrahis arriving at the beach at Dandi
Satyagrahis
making salt on the beach in violation of British law
Gandhi
website with research resources
Collection of Real Media video
clips of Mohandas Gandhi
Wikipedia
entry on Gandhi's autobiography, written in 1929
Short biography of Gandhi
On zionism,
nazis, and Palestine
November 20, 1938
My sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became life-long companions. Through these friends I came to learn much of their age-long persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity. The parallel between their treatment by Christians and the treatment of untouchables by Hindus is very close. Religious sanction has been invoked in both cases for the justification of the inhuman treatment meted out to them. Apart from the friendships, therefore, there is the more common universal reason for my sympathy for the Jews.
But my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.
The nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French. If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of being forced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled? Or do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for the national home affords a colorable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews.
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