HINDUTVA & ZIONISM AS NATURAL ALLIES POSE GREAT DANGER TO
MULTICULTURAL WORLD
Those who believe in a world free of hegemonic ethno-nationalism, Racism,
religious bigotry and hatred have
rightly taken note of Zionism and its ally Christian Zionism, major
perpetrators of ethnic cleansing of “Others”.
However, the civilized world with its core belief in multi- culturalism
and peaceful co-existence is oblivious to a no less dangerous threat to the
present human civilization, the Hindutva Zionism. As the term reads it is part
of the Hindutva world- view which stands for an exclusive Hindu India minus
Muslims and Christians. The other religions
like Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism will have no independent status
but treated as part
of Hinduism. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS; National Volunteer Organization) is the most prominent
flag-bearer of the Hindutva politics
whose cadres presently rule India, the largest democracy in the world.
RSS was founded by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1889-1940) in 1925 who was
disillusioned with the Indian freedom
struggle led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) against the British rule
for believing that Indian nation was a composite entity consisting of Hindus,
Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and followers of other religions living in India.
Hedgewar and his associates aggressively claimed that India was an exclusive
nation of Hindus. For RSS the real enemies were not the British rulers but
Muslims and Christians as they belonged to foreign religions. Thus RSS
represented the militant Hindu nationalism, termed as Hindutva opposed to Gandhi’s
all-inclusive Indian nationalism.
According to the most prominent ideologues of Hindutva, Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar (1883- 1966) and Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (1906-73), the Hindutva is
true “Hinduness” which should not be reduced
to what is understood as Hinduism. Hindutva
is aggressive commitment to the belief that India is the
Father-land and Holy Land of Hindus who are Aryans, speak Sanskrit language and
believe in Casteism. All others are foreign races who,
“must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to
respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those
of the glorification of the Hindu
race and culture…must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race,
or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming
nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment not even
citizen’s rights.”1
1 Golwalkar,
MS, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Nagpur, 1939, p. 48.
Golwalkar’s another “Holy” book for the RSS cadres Bunch of Thoughts, has a long chapter
titled as “Internal Threats” in which Muslims and Christians have been
described as threat number 1 and 2, respectively.2
Importantly, RSS and its leading cadres presently ruling India are the
most vocal supporters of Zionism and the Zionist Israel after the West. The
renowned Indian author, Khushwant Singh noted that RSS “supported Zionism and the Jewish state of Israel
for no other reason but that it was forever waging wars against its Arab neighbours
who were Muslims”.3 The
current RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat like his predecessors has been calling upon
the RSS cadres to emulate Israel to tread “the path of Israel while serving the
cause of nationalism.”4 A
leading English daily of Israel, the
Jerusalem Post too underlined the
fact that “whenever a BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party; a political appendage of the
RSS) government comes to power, the vibrancy in India- Israel relations reaches
new heights.5
At the government level Narendra Modi [Prime Minister of India since
2014] who is also a leading ideologue of the RSS was the first Prime Minister
of India to visit Israel in mid-2017 [almost 70 years after founding of the
Indian Republic] with the then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
visiting India in early 2018. Both
continue to enjoy close friendship despite
Netanyahu no more being the prime minister of Israel. India is one of the
largest importers of Israeli arms but the largest consumer of the surveillance
and intelligence-related equipment. The latest disclosures about the Israel made Pegasus spyware make it clear how
India made large purchases of it for use against lawyers, journalists,
politicians and activists who were suspected to be opposed to the Hindutva
politics. On the surveillance front the ganging up of Zionist Israel and
India is proved by the fact that India remains the only democracy not to share any information about the purchase
of Pegasus spyware which has been described
as the “world’s most powerful cyber weapon”.6 Concerned
by the abstruseness of Modi government Supreme Court, the highest court of
justice of India had to constitute a committee to find out the truth in October
2021. The report was submitted in a sealed cover on August 25, 2022. The Bench comprising Chief Justice of India N V Ramana
and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli while
accepting the report
informed that the Government of India did not cooperate with the
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2 Golwalkar, M.S.,
Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya
Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 177.
3 Singh, Khushwant, „Faith of the bigot‟. https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/faith-of-the-bigot/cid/1026785
4 Mohan Bhagwat’s address to the „Youth pledge camp‟ at Agra on November 3, 2014,
http://www.coastaldigest.com/rss-chief-mohan-bhagwat-advocates-israel-model-nationalism?page=24
5 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh-rss-and-its-views-on-israel-598435
6 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html
committee.7 It was a sad scenario for Indian democracy that rulers
of India even refused to respond to a committee appointed by the highest court
of justice whose deliberations were confidential. For reasons known to the
Court only it did not pass any judgment.
In the meantime, two renowned investigate
journalists; Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazetti relying on official papers of Israel confirmed that India did buy the Pegasus courtesy Netanyahu. According to the report,
“In
July 2017, Narendra Modi, who won office on a platform of Hindu nationalism,
became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel. For decades, India had
maintained a policy of what it called „commitment to the Palestinian cause,‟
and relations with Israel were frosty. The Modi visit, however, was notably
cordial, complete with a carefully staged moment of him and Prime Minister
Netanyahu walking together barefoot on a local beach. They had reason for the
warm feelings. Their countries had agreed on the sale of a package of
sophisticated weapons and intelligence gear worth roughly $2 billion — with
Pegasus and a missile system
as the centerpieces. Months later,
Netanyahu made a rare state visit to India. And in June
2019, India voted in support of Israel at the U.N.‟s Economic and Social
Council to deny observer status to a Palestinian human rights organization, a
first for the nation.”
INDIA UNDER
HINDUTVA RULE FOLLOWS ZIONIST ISRAEL IN DEALING WITH MUSLIM KASHMIRIS
With the
beginning of the 2nd term of Modi [2019] India witnessed brazen
execution of the old anti-Muslim agenda of the RSS. Article 370 which provided
special provisions to guarantee its distinct character to Jammu & Kashmir
State [the only Muslim majority State in India] was abrogated [August 5, 2019].
A day later, renowned political thinker, Pratap Bhanu Mehta could not help writing:
“There are
times in the history of a republic when it reduces itself to jackboot [MILITARY
RULE]. Nothing more and nothing less. We are witnessing that moment in Kashmir.
But this moment is also a dry run for the political desecration that may follow
in the rest of India. The manner in which the BJP government has changed the status of Jammu and Kashmir by rendering Article 370 ineffective and
bifurcating the state is revealing its true character. This is a state for whom
the only currency that matters is raw power. This is a state that recognises no
constraints of law, liberty and morality. This is a state that will make a
mockery of democracy and deliberation. This is a state whose psychological principle is fear. This is a state
7
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/supreme-court-verdict-pegasus-
spyware-case-explained-
8110710/#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20on%20Thursday,the%20Israeli%2Dbuilt%20s
pyware%20Pegasus.
that will make ordinary
citizens cannon fodder for its warped nationalist pretensions.
“For, fundamentally, what this change
signals is that Indian democracy is failing. It is descending into majoritarianism, the brute power of the vote; it will no
longer have the safety valves
that allowed inclusion...Not a single one of us can take any constitutional protections for granted. Parliament
is a notice board, not a debating forum.”8
The Indian State under Modi has been religiously
following the Zionist Israel in persecuting Muslims and human rights‟ defenders
of the region. According to Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on minority issues, and Ahmed
Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, in a statement said:
“The loss of autonomy and the imposition of
direct rule by the Government in New Delhi suggests the people of Jammu and
Kashmir no longer have their own government
and have lost power to legislate or amend laws in the region to ensure the protection of their rights
as minorities”9
The following report carried by UNO new site proved once again that
Kashmir looked like Palestine under Zionism:
“Since the Indian Government’s 5 August
announcement revoking Kashmir’s special status, tighter central Government
control has resulted with access to information and peaceful protests quashed.
Reports have described a near total communications
blackout in Jammu and Kashmir since the evening of 4 August, with internet
access, mobile phone networks, and cable and Kashmiri television channels cut
off.
The experts expressed concern that the measures, imposed
after the Indian Parliament revoked the constitutionally-mandated status of the
state of Jammu and Kashmir, would exacerbate tensions in the region.
“The shutdown
of the internet and telecommunication networks, without justification from the
Government, are inconsistent with the fundamental norms of necessity and proportionality,‟ the experts said
in a statement.
“The blackout is a form of collective punishment of the people of Jammu and
Kashmir, without even a
pretext of a precipitating offence.”
8 August 6, 2019, „The story of Indian democracy written in blood and betrayal‟, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/jammu-kashmir-article-370-scrapped-special-status-amit-shah-
narendra-modi-bjp-5880797/
9 https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/02/1085112
“The Government has also imposed a curfew
across Jammu and Kashmir, with massive numbers of troops brought in to enforce
movement and peaceful assembly restrictions, particularly in the Kashmir
Valley.
“We remind the Indian authorities that the restrictions
imposed by the Indian Government are intrinsically disproportionate, because
they preclude considerations of the specific circumstances of each proposed
assembly,‟ the experts stated.
“At the same time, information received
suggests an increase in the arrest of political figures, journalists, human
rights defenders, protesters and others.
“The experts expressed deep concern over reports that security forces were
conducting night raids on private
homes leading to the arrests
of young people.”10
Amnesty International released
many reports of the impunity
with which Indian
State was following the
Zionists in persecuting Kashmiris. In one of these released in July 2015
titled, “DENIED: Failures
in accountability for human rights
violations by security
force personnel in Jammu and Kashmir”1 described
in details how Kashmir had turned into killing fields.
AFFINITIES BETWEEN
ZIONISM AND HINDUTVA
1.
God’s
‘Chosen People’: According to Zionism the Jewish
people were chosen
by God as His true worshippers and to fulfill the mission of
proclaiming his truth among all the nations of the world. The Hindutva
flag-bearers proclaim the same status. According to them Hindu Race,
“professes its illustrious Hindu Religion, the only Religion in the world
worthy of being so denominated,
which in its variety is still an organic whole, capable of feeding the noble
aspirations of all men…enriched by the noblest philosophy of life in all its
functions, and hallowed by an unbroken, interminable succession of divine spiritual
geniuses, a religion of which any sane man may be justly proud. Guided by this
Religion…the [Hindu] Race evolved a culture, which despite the degenerating
contact with the debased „civilizations‟ of the Mussalman and the Europeans,
for the last ten centuries, is still the noblest in the world.”12
Speaking a language similar
to the Zionists, Golwalkar went on to declare that the world soon
will “tremble
with fear”13 before
the “Chosen People”;
upholders of the Hindutva.
10
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/08/1044741
11 https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ASA2018742015ENGLISH.pdf
12 Golwalkar, MS, We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Nagpur, 1939, pp. 40-41.
13 Ibid., p. 12.
It is to be noted that MK Gandhi described as Father of Indian nation
without mincing word stated as early as 1938:
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that
England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman
to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a
crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be
restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”14
2. Religion as basis of nationality: Both
believe that religion is the determining factor for nationality. Both are
against inclusive nationalities.
3. Religious scriptures as authentic history: For
Zionists and Hindutva protagonists, religious scriptures narrate actual history
and any other narrative is unacceptable. Myths are truths.
4. Genocidal: Zionist organizations and Zionist
Israel have been widely condemned for the genocide of Palestinians and other
opponents. Israel is the only state
which has been condemned both by the
General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations through more than 200 resolutions since its founding
in 1948.
In India we have witnessed a major genocide of minorities almost every
decade in which Hindutva cadres have been found involved. In these genocides
victims have not been only minorities but lower
Castes of Hindus
also. It is important to know that RSS which
claims to be a
cultural organization is fond of worshipping arms. It celebrates its foundation
day as ''shastr pooja" (worship of the arms) in which RSS leaders/cadres
participate in large numbers. 15
Recently following into the foot-steps of Zionist Israel RSS-BJP rulers have
made bulldozers as a symbol of
punishing Muslims.16
5. Demonization of opponents: An important commonality between the two is the demonization
and persecution of anti-Zionists as Anti-Semitic and anti-Hindutva as
anti-Hindu. The renowned researcher of Zionism, Yoav Litvin wrote:
“In fact, anti-Zionists were targeted from before the foundation of the
state of Israel. Today, Jewish pro-Palestinian activists who support the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement are detained, punished and
even deported.”17
14 Gandhi, MK, „The Jews in Palestine‟, Harijan, November
26, 1938.
15 https://www.outlookindia.com/photos/single/147568, https://newsdnntv.com/news/sarsanghchalak-mohan-
bhagwat-did-arms-worship-on-v
16 https://theprint.in/campus-voice/the-bulldozer-is-replacing-the-lotus-as-bjps-election-symbol/931304/
17 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/1/9/the-zionist-fallacy-of-jewish-supremacy
In India MK Gandhi (Father of the Nation), anti-Hindutva
intellectuals/journalists namely Govind Pansare, MM Kalburgi, Narender
Dabholkar and Gouri Lankesh were assassinated by the Hindutva zealots for being anti-Hindu. Arrest of
anti-Hindutva intellectuals like Anand Teltumbde, Fr. Stany (who died during
incarceration), Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao,
lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, activists Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Hany Babu,
Umar Khalid and hundreds others under terror laws.
6.
Blatantly
Racist: Zionists ruling Israel may harp on the divine unity of the
Jews of the world but in reality Israel is ruled by and for superior Ashkenazi
[European] Jews. In Israel hatred for
dark-skinned African Jews and Sephardi [Spanish speaking Jews] and Mizrahi Jews
[Jews from Central and West Asian
countries, many of them Arabic-speaking] is too glaring to be missed.
In India RSS demands abrogation of the democratic-secular-egalitarian
Constitution and promulgation of Manu Code [Manusmriti]
as law of the land. Manusmriti is
declared to be most worship-able after Vedas. It decrees sub-human status to
women and Sudras [lowest Caste in the Brahmanical Caste system].18
Moreover, RSS treats dark-skinned South Indians as inferior.19
RSS LINKAGES
WITH INTERNATIONAL NEO-FASCIST ORGANIZATIONS
RSS building a deadly alliance against Muslims &
Christians in South Asia:
Editorial in the New York Times
The world has not bothered to take any notice of a terrorist network
developing fast in India and its neighbourhood between RSS and the two
terrorist ultra nationalist Buddhist groups of Myanmar and Sri Lanka against
minorities; specially Muslims in the region. According to an editorial in The International New York Times [“Deadly
alliances against Muslims”, October 16, 2014] it was announced by Galagodaththe
Gnanasara, the leader of the radical Sri Lankan Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena
[Buddhist Power Force] at an international convention in Colombo in September
2014. The editorial disclosed that at
the convention:
“The guest of honor was Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist radical whose
picture Time magazine put on its July 1 [2013] covers as “The Face of Buddhist
Terror”…Mr. Gnanasara claimed he was in discussions “at a high level” with the right-wing
18 For detail elaboration of Manu Code look at: https://www.academia.edu/676528/Untouchables_in_Manu_s_India
19 https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjp-s-tarun-vijay-stokes-racism-row-we-have-south-india-we-live- with-black-people/story-rmaP8qguUK7zr1mWem2e4O.html
Indian Hindu
group Rashtriya Swayam Sevak to form what he called a ‘Hindu- Buddhist peace zone’ in South Asia.”20
The NYT editorial also carried Facebook and Twitter congratulatory
messages of Ram Madhav (who kept on shuffling as spokes-person of RSS and
general secretary of BJP) to Bodu Bala Sena. These must be read to know the depth of
linkages between Buddhist terrorist organizations and RSS.
Neo-Nazi mass murderer of Norway, Anders
Behring Breivik’s linkages
with the RSS
On 22 JULY 2011 Breivik
massacred 77 youth
belonging to the Norway’s ruling Labour Party at a youth
training camp on the island of Utøya. It was no
sudden carnage by some mad person. Breivik had planned it for years.
Just before the attack he had released on line “A
European Declaration of Independence‟ which declared war against the devils;
cultural Marxism, Multi- culturalism, feminism, emotionalism, humanism, and
egalitarianism.21
In this case, too, the world took almost no notice of the critical
fact that Breivik’s manifesto laid down a plan of co-operation between Neo-Nazi
movements of Europe and “Hindu Nationalist” organizations of India. Out of 1515
pages of Breivik’s manifesto 102 pages dealt with the glorification of Hindutva
movement of India.
It emphasized that it was essential that these two “learn from each other
and cooperate as much as possible” as
“Our goals are more or less identical.” This manifesto specially mentioned the
name of the fountain head of the Hindutva politics, RSS and its appendages like
BJP, ABVP (Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad; student appendage of the RSS) and
VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad; RSS appendage to bring the world under Hindutva
hegemony) as partners. 22
Importantly, the manifesto pledged military support “to the nationalists in the
Indian civil war and in the deportation of all Muslims from India” as part of a
larger campaign to “overthrow of all western European multi-culturalist
governments”.
How critical is the danger of RSS becoming a rallying point of all the
neo-Fascists of the world can be gauged by the fact that the former according
to its own admission was active in 39 countries with the nomenclature, Hindu Seva Sangh.23 The RSS has not uploaded
data after 2015
20 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/opinion/deadly-alliances-against-muslims.html
21
https://info.publicintelligence.net/AndersBehringBreivikManifesto.pdf
22 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/norwegian-mass-killers-manifesto-hails- hindutva/article2293829.ece
23 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rashtriya-Swayamsevak-Sangh-shakha-spreads-its-wings-to-39-
countries/articleshow/50260517.cms
in this regard.
There must be many more countries where it could be functioning covertly. The civilized
world can risk overlooking this most lethal danger on its own peril.
Shamsul Islam
