Savarkar, Nazi, Hitler and Jews- Part 3

Savarkar always admired Indian Jews for their loyalty towards India. ‘’The Jews are few in number and not antagonistic to our national aspirations. All these minorities of our countrymen are sure to behave as honest and patriotic citizens in an Indian State.” 1

 

“As to the Jews in India, they are too few, have given us no political or cultural troubles and are not in the main a proselytizing people, they will to be friendly towards Hindus who have sheltered them when homeless and can be easily assimilated in a common Indian State.’’ 2 Savarkar is the first Indian who explicitly supported Zionist movement in his famous book ‘Hindutva’ (1923). He says, “If the Zionists' dreams are ever realized—if Palestine becomes a Jewish State and it will gladden us almost as much as our Jewish friends.’’ 3

 

 

Savarkar even supported formation of Jewish nation ‘Israel’ and congratulated them- “I am glad to note that the overwhelming majority of the leading nations in the world should have recognized the claim of the Jewish People to establish an Independent Jewish state, in Palestine and should have promised armed assistance to get it realized. After centuries of sufferings, sacrifices and struggle the Jews will soon recover their national home in Palestine which has undoubtedly been their Fatherland and Holy land. Well may they compare this event to that glorious day in their history when Moses led them out of The Egyptian bondage and wilderness? and the promised land flowing with milk and honey came well within sight.”……… ‘’In justice, therefore, the whole of Palestine ought to have been restored to the Jews’’……..‘’The Jewish minority in Hindusthan too had given us no cause to suspect them’’…...‘’Hindu Sanghatanists at any rate cherish goodwill towards and extend their moral support to the establishment of the independent Jewish State in Palestine on moral as well as political grounds.’’ 4

 

On contrary, Congress government voted against the creation of the Jewish State in UNO but prior to Indian independence, same Congress had proposed to invite non-Indian Jews from Europe to colonize Cochin and some other parts of India which was strongly opposed by Savarkar. Not only Savarkar but also US, British and all other democratic governments refused Jewish refugees at same point or other in late 1930’s. At the same time Savarkar also denounced ‘’The statement of Gandhiji and others that Palestine belongs to the Arabs in justice and the Jews are aliens there is due either to an amazing ignorance of history or to a deliberate and cowardly misrepresentation of facts with a view to placate the Indian Moslem.’’ 5 Savarkar said, “I have every sympathy with the Jewish community in Europe and elsewhere in their distress and assert that the best solution of Jewish question can only be found in an unrestricted recolonization of Palestine by the Jewish people to whom alone it belongs of right as their Mother Land as well as their Holy Land, the land of Moses and David and Soloman from time immemorial.... I call upon the British Government to continue their policy of re-establishing the European Jews and enabling them to raise a strong Jewish Nation once again in Palestine—their real Motherland and Holy Land’’ 6

 

It is crystal clear that Swatyantraveer Savarkar supported Zionist movement and encouraged them to create strong Jewish Nation in Palestine. Savarkar did not oppose giving Jews what they wanted, he opposed giving them what their enemies wanted to give them viz., anything except Palestine.7

 

1. Samagra Savarkar Vangmay- Volume 6, Editor: S.R Date, 1963-65, Maharashtra Prantik Hindusabha Publication, Page 295

 

2. ibid, Page 328

 

3. ibid, Page 87

 

4. Savarkar, V.D., Aitihasik Nivedane, Veer Savarkar Publication, 1982, Page 191 to 193

 

5. Whirl-Wind Propaganda, Page 70 to 72

 

6. Elst, Dr. Koenraad., The Saffron Swastika- The Notion of "Hindu Fascism"- Volume 1, Voice of India Publication, 2nd Edition, 2010, Page 376-377

 

(To be continued...)