Unconditional support of India for Israel in genocide of oppressed Palestinians in Gaza

Pars Today – While even the utterly hypocritical Western regimes have been forced, under the pressure of public opinion, to at least voice some criticism of the Zionist regime, India’s far-right government continues to stand firmly and “proudly” by Tel Aviv.

Despite the dominance of the global Zionist oligarchy over the world’s mass media, the demonic and anti-human face of the Zionist regime is increasingly exposed to the world. Even the thoroughly hypocritical Western regimes, under public pressure, have been compelled to make at least some criticisms of this regime. Yet India’s far-right government remains steadfast and “proud” in its support for Tel Aviv.

According to Pars Today, citing Mashregh News, the Modi government’s ideological Islamophobia is certainly one of the main reasons behind this sinister alliance between India and the occupying Israeli regime. Ranjan Suleiman, an Indian political analyst and defender of Palestinian rights, strongly criticized this approach of his government in an article published on the Middle East Monitor website.

Weapons of hypocrisy

India’s military and strategic relations with Israel have rapidly expanded over the past decade. In 2015, defense trade between India and Israel stood at $5.6 million. Today, that figure has risen to more than $185 million annually. India is now the largest purchaser of Israeli weaponry, importing everything from drones and surveillance systems to precision-guided missiles.

These weapons are not produced in a moral vacuum. Many of the technologies exported to India are “battle-tested”—a term referring to weapons that have been field-tested on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. By purchasing them, India is effectively supporting the occupation, the apartheid wall, the demolition of homes, and now the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Genocide in live broadcast

What is happening in the Gaza Strip is no longer ambiguous. Since October 7, 2023, more than 60,000 Palestinians have been martyred, many of them women and children. Hospitals have been systematically targeted. Humanitarian aid convoys have been bombed. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war. Prominent legal experts, including Craig Mokhiber, former director of the United Nations Human Rights Office in New York, have described this genocide as “deliberate, methodical, and systematic.”

India’s silence—and worse

Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, was among the first global leaders to express solidarity with Israel after October 7, even before any verified facts had emerged. The Indian government refrained from condemning the indiscriminate bombing of civilians and instead took measures to suppress pro-Palestinian demonstrations, suspended student activists, and persecuted academics and journalists who dared to speak out.

Universities were instructed not to allow campus protests. Student unions faced disciplinary action for issuing statements of solidarity with Palestine. Even humanitarian aid drives in major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore were denied police permission. This repression bears frightening similarities to authoritarian regimes: silence dissent, criminalize compassion.

India, which once hosted Yasser Arafat with full state honors and defended Palestinian freedom at the United Nations, now collaborates militarily with apartheid and turns its back on people undergoing ethnic cleansing before the eyes of the world.

Suppressing the voice of the people

Civil society in India has not remained silent. From Delhi to Kerala, independent groups, human rights defenders, and courageous students have spoken out. Artists have painted for Gaza, lawyers have written letters to the Supreme Court, teachers have held conferences in defense of Palestine, and Muslims across the country have conducted prayer gatherings.

Yet they face government repression, digital surveillance, and media attacks. News channels label them “anti-national.” The police use the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to harass or detain peaceful activists. Social media, especially on campuses, is monitored and censored.

Why India should reconsider its position

India itself was a victim of colonial rule and understands the costs of occupation, the wounds of partition, and the harms of violence. In this context, India should advocate for global decolonization rather than defend colonial powers. While India arms the apartheid regime in Gaza, it cannot invoke Gandhi or Nehru while ignoring their steadfast support for Palestine’s right to self-determination. India cannot claim leadership of the Global South while assisting Israel’s machinery of genocide in the slaughter of innocent Palestinian people.