No land was distant for Kerala even in the pre-Internet era. Every earth-shaking global political development caused mild tremors in the State thanks to its globe-trotting population and tryst with progressive political movements.
It was only natural, therefore, that Palestine and India’s position on the Israeli war in Gaza came under discussion in Kerala in the run-up to the elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which conflated it with the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests, sought to slyly portray it as support to Hamas as it would add muscle to its argument about Kerala as ‘a breeding ground of terror’.
