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TopicKarpoori Thakur Israel visit

Topic: Karpoori Thakur Israel visit

Karpoori Thakur went to Israel in 1959 and lived in the Kibbutz. Nehru actively encouraged him

Karpoori Thakur was critical of India's diplomatic distance from Israel. He did not consider Zionism as a settler-colonial project but a legitimate Jewish national movement with unique socialist ethos.

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