In New Delhi, India, some event happens in November privately. Then the consul general in New York was caught on camera calling for New Delhi to adopt an “Israeli model” in Indian-administered Kashmir. At the time, millions across Kashmir were grappling with an intense military lockdown and an unprecedented communication blackout. Months earlier, the government led by Narendra Modi had revoked the region’s semi-autonomous status, triggering widespread unrest and the detention of thousands, including several mainstream political leaders known for their pro-India stance.
From the reports, we get to know that the senior Indian diplomat was musing about Israel’s far-right settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, and it is in reference to the resettling of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus, who had to flee their homeland in a 1989 exodus after an armed rebellion against Indian rule started in the Himalayan region. This is a starting range, the big change into this is comes in after the Modi come in a power. Referring to developments in the Middle East, Chakravorty told the gathering, “If the Israeli people can do it, we can do it too,” while asserting that the Modi government was “fully determined” to move in that direction.
The developments take place over there, and this generation is focusing on this speciality. If we talk about six years later, we see the Chakravorty’s words ring truer than ever. Here also, as Modi prepares for his second visit to Israel starting on February 25, the two countries are bound by more than just friendship, which is always beneficial for the country. The visit is starting from one country to another in a minimum time period.
They are good partners in trade and military. They are starting to build their country, and along with this, they are some analysts have also joined at the hip in certain facets of their models of governance. The bound is created. Analysts say India has increasingly strengthened its ties with Israel, marking a shift that has come at the cost of its traditional support for the Palestinian cause. Also appears to have imported multiple elements of Israel’s security and administrative approach to Palestinians, and unleashed them into its domestic policies since Modi took power in 2014. Like this, our prime minister embraced the Israel model. Maybe he used to planning visit over there again in the future.
Our country is still connected to the roots of previous times. Like the old times, we are seeing lots of changes take place. Also, the country has changed, and in a systematic manner, our government maintains our society and also deals with political issues. We have seen multiple elements and lots of approaches have changed and are making developments over there. It envisions India as a natural homeland for Hindus across the world, drawing parallels with how Israel identifies itself as a homeland for the Jewish community.
The bond is real, and it is rare, too. The friendship works because they have similar supremacist ends, Essa told Al Jazeera. Under Modi, India and Israel became strategic partners, and Delhi began to see Israel as a template and as key to India’s move toward becoming a great power. The strategic patterns give them more energetic work processes.
If we talk about the past decade, authorities in several BJP-ruled states have demolished the homes and shops of hundreds of Muslims and also razed multiple mosques. These demolitions have been carried out, for the most part, without legal notices being issued to occupants or owners of the establishments. Legal documents are established there. Because Muslims are rich in population, so many mosques are made over there. And if you generally see in the world, you find the Muslim people more and more. The developments are other task and these small issues, like the rate of population, and all are other tasks.
These incidents have often erupted following communal tensions in specific neighbourhoods, protests against policies of the Modi government, or even local disputes that later acquired a religious dimension. Israel has demolished thousands of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and displaced their residents, making way for illegal Israeli settlements.
During Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, almost all of the Palestinian territory’s homes, offices, hospitals, schools, universities and places of worship have been destroyed or badly damaged. A political scientist renowned for exploring the complex crossroads of nationalism, identity, and conflict across South Asia. Generations of [Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, the ideological fountainhead of the BJP] cadres, Modi included, have been indoctrinated in this ideology and have imbibed the love of Israel.
The Bose characterised as majoritarian and supremacist, is the model Hindu nationalists are implementing in India in the Modi era. The boycott is facing there. It is increasingly difficult to rent a home, Muslim children often face bullying and harassment at school, and the community has mostly fled a number of villages after attacks. In November 2024, India’s top court ruled that government authorities cannot demolish any property, even if belonging to people accused of a crime, without following due legal process. However, on the ground, such demolitions continue.
At the forefront of India-Israel bilateral ties are their defence relations and an overlapping security doctrine. India has also supplied weapons to Israel amid its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. Israel has provided joint training sessions for Indian soldiers with the Israeli army, alongside a wide array of Israeli systems. After gunmen killed 26 civilians in the tourist town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, 2025.
We see that Pakistan, which denied any role, hit back, firing missiles and drones as the nuclear-armed neighbours engaged in an intense four-day air war. The air stick is held because of this war nature are spread all over. The air war is the largest war from the all the wars previously happens. Arnab Goswami, an anchor, stated: “22 April is to India what 7 October was to the Israelis,” referring to the day when Hamas fighters attacked southern Israel in 2023. A guest on the programme said, “We demand we turn Pakistan into Gaza.”
Among Israel’s most controversial security exports to India is the sophisticated spyware, Pegasus, made by the Israeli software firm NSO Group. a nonprofit news website publishing from New Delhi, was one of the journalists targeted by the spyware that an Israeli firm reportedly sold to the Modi government under an undisclosed defence deal. Varadarajan told Al Jazeera, recounting his experience, adding that it could secretly record and transmit video and photographs.
India’s Supreme Court appointed an expert committee, which found malware in some phones but said it could not conclusively attribute it to Pegasus, citing limited cooperation from the Modi government. The Indian government has been “a happy adopter”. India ranks at the top among democracies that impose internet restrictions, and the country has slid in multiple democracy indices in recent years.
To the population, the external threats have also been given. They used to say, to be sure, India has long battled a series of internal security challenges of its own, as it has tried to unify and hold together a large and diverse landmass. Separatist movements have ranged from the northeast to Kashmir. The unity has a power, so they make a unity to control the situation. Amid all of that, “what Israel has done is help provide India with the technology and expertise to become more oppressive, authoritarian, and militarised, like Israel,” Essa told Al Jazeera.
One of the world’s most militarised zones, Kashmir has, since August 2019, been stripped of not just its earlier semi-autonomous status, but of most democratic power, as a region that other provincial authorities have. The government of India is giving their opinions, they say It echoes Netanyahu’s approach of rejection and non-engagement with the Palestinians and the exclusive reliance on military power.
The Kashmir and Palestine have a very distinct past and present. Still, India’s approach to Kashmir increasingly carries parallels with Israel’s treatment of the West Bank, said Essa. The population are rising very fast all over the world. The politics are spread all around us. The power is in the government’s hands. India is accused of transforming Kashmir through the lens of population management, similar to the Israeli West Bank occupation. This includes promoting the construction of militarized Hindu settlements, reminiscent of checkpoints and watchtowers found in Palestinian territories.
India has significantly shifted its traditional stance of supporting the Palestinian cause to a pragmatic partnership with Israel, evidenced by its actions to strengthen defense and technological ties.
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