De Haan argued Zionist support risked Muslim unrest in British India.

Evidence

Specifically, the card he played in trying to sabotage the status of Zionists vis-à-vis the British was quite ingenious: he argued that supporting the Zionists was not worth the possible disruption it might cause among Muslims in Britain’s prized possession, India. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 444

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the modern argument that support for Israel destabilizes Muslim-majority states; connects to the book’s theme that Orientalist self-awareness about Muslims was already deployed politically.