TY - BOOK AU - Essa, Azad, TI - Hostile homelands : : the new alliance between India and Israel SN - 9780745345017 U1 - 327.5405694 23 PY - 2023/// CY - las Vegas PB - Pluto Press KW - India--Israel relationship KW - Zionism and Hindutva N2 - "Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a 'Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu State), little attention has been paid to the linkages between Modi's India and the governments from which it has drawn inspiration, as well as military and technical support. India once called Zionism racism, but, as Azad Essa argues, the state of Israel has increasingly become a cornerstone of India’s foreign policy. Looking to replicate the 'ethnic state' in the image of Israel in policy and practice, the annexation of Kashmir increasingly resembles Israel's settler-colonial project of the occupied West Bank. The ideological and political linkages between the two states are alarming; their brands of ethnonationalism deeply intertwined."-- ER -