Impunity in CAXEMIRA: India wants manual of Israel

Indian police and media are asking for the “Israel model” in the “most militarized zone in the world”

The comparison between India’s control over Caxemira and the occupation of Palestine by Israel has long been done by academics and activists.

Now, prominent Indian figures are invoking the connection themselves.

Following an attack on tourists in India -controlled Caxemira, there were widespread appeals for a retaliation “similar to Israel” by police authorities, high -level commentators and public members.

As the Indian response unfolds, experts warned Middle East Eye that the implementation of the “Israeli Manual” will create impunity in relation to state treatment to cashmires.

On Tuesday, gunmen gave fire to a group of tourists near the center of Pahalgam, killing at least 26 tourists, most of India.

A group that calls itself “resistance front”-affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba, based in Pakistan-issued statements claiming responsibility for the attack, although they still need to be verified.

Although images of the media and reports of eyewitnesses from the incident captured the role of Caxemira residents in the protection of tourists immediately after the attack, many members of the Indian audiences asked for a vengeful response against cashmires and Muslims, referring to Israel’s ongoing war, in which more than 51,000 Palestinians were killed.

Professor Mohamad Junaid of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, whose work is concentrated in state violence and cashmire activism, told the MEE that the rhetoric of social media amplified by the “right right” is adopted from the “anti-pasteal rhetoric of antipalectine discourses, anti-immigrants and antiminories of the West.”

Many of these links come from high -level organizations and journalists.

Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (Shhan) – based in the USA – asked for “[achatamento] From the cashmir ”, comparing the cashmir controlled by India to Gaza.

Arnab Goswami attracted great attention by announcing on his program on the right -wing YouTube Republic World channel that: “April 22 is to India what October 7 went to the Israelis.”

A guest who participated in the program added: “We demand that we transform Pakistan into Gaza.”

Indian columnist Sanjay Dixit had a similar message for YouTube channel viewers Jaipur Dialogues.

Rhetoric was not limited to presentors of Talk Shows and Users of the X and was invoked in the coverage of the Indian mainstream media and by members of the law forces, consolidating a parallel between the Indian and Israeli states.

Zee News, an important Indian news network, described the response of Israeli Ambassador Reuven lushing as a statement from the “closest friend of India, Israel.”

Former Jammu and Caxemira Police General, SP Vaid said that “we should respond as Israel,” as reported by the newspaper Hindi Jagran.

Human rights groups documented the ways in which the Jammu and Caxemira police, commanded by the Indian Interior Ministry, led beats and interrogations against journalists and maintained extrajudicial detention of cashmires.

Similarly, an opinion article in The Print, written by former Indian army general MM Naravane, asked India to “borrow” Israeli tactics.

“It’s time for India to show her teeth and not fall into appeals for moderation,” he wrote.

Experts widely describe India -controlled cashmire as “the most militarized zone in the world.” Many of these military personnel are trained by Israeli forces.

An overview of Israel’s model

This is not the first time the “Israel model” has been invoked in the context of India -controlled cashmire.

In June 2024, the Indian author Anand Ranganathan called for a “similar solution to Israel” to Caxemira, almost a year after the beginning of the Israeli War in Gaza.

The Indian consul in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty, made similar analogies in 2019.

Lawyer and author Suchitra Vijayan told Mee that the “invocation of tactics” to Israel’s style ‘by politicians, media and users of the Indian internet is not accidental. “

Instead, she added, “this reflects strategic and ideological alignment between two ethnonational states – India and Israel – both of which normalized prolonged military occupation, demographic engineering and the criminalization of dissent.”

Vijayan explained that this relationship is not only ideological, but extends to “shared infrastructures of violence: surveillance, digital repression, population control and police regimes that are increasingly modeled in each other’s practices”.

India has long been the largest buyer of Israeli weapons, while Indian -made Hermes has been used in the Israeli War in Gaza.

Research also shows that Israeli drones and surveillance technologies are being used in Caxemira.

Human rights groups and academics documented the approaches shared by the Armed Forces and police of both countries – such as punitive houses, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary arrests, employed by the Israeli state against Palestinians, and the Indian state against cashmires.

The use of these tactics increased after the revocation of the special status of Caxemira in 2019, when the Indian government launched a great repression of dissent, aiming at journalists and civil society.

According to Caxemira Hafsa Kanjwal academic, the 2019 Indian government’s decision – which allows Indians to buy land in India -controlled Caxemira – paves the way for similar “colonization colonization projects” in India and Israel, forcing “demographic changes”.

Junaid said that by summoning parallels between the two states, the Hindu right intends to obtain “the same kind of impunity to kill and destroy lives from Muslims and cashmires who believes Israel has.”

“They are feeding the hatred and dehumanization of Palestinians and Caxeres and using the power of the state to produce domination shows,” he added.

By the time this article was written, the Indian news source Maktoob Media reported the arrest of at least 1,500 inhabitants of Caxemira, as well as cashmira students being violently attacked by Hindu nationalist turmoils throughout India.

“Israel’s ability to act with impunity has created a global precedent, and India is observing, adopting and adapting,” Vijayan said.

Originally published by Mee on April 25, 2025

Por shraddha joshi