Afrasianet - Mazen Al , Najjar  - Casualties , whether in Gaza, Hawalpur or Srinagar, are always portrayed as a threat to the "peace" imposed on them. 

Their grief is seen as extremism. Their survival is disturbing. And their death is often deserved. From Gaza to Kashmir, the behavior of India's ruling Hindu nationalist right appears to be a copy of Israel's Zionist settler-replacement model, strategy, tactics, language, violence, settlement, genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Decades ago, the fanatical Hindu nationalist right embarked on a project to eradicate all minorities and non-Hindu cultural, religious, social and ethnic components, and to erase more than two millennia of ethnic diversity, multiculturalism and peaceful coexistence among the rest of the broad historical Indian spectrum. This diversity was expressed by the flag of the independence movement from Britain and the founding fathers of contemporary India, with each color symbolizing one of the country's main components:  Orange (Hindus), green (Muslims) and white (Christians).

Enlightened Hindu intellectuals and intellectuals, such as Sumdip Sin, Pankaj Mishra, and others, have noted the similarity between the policies of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and those of the chauvinist right ruling in India.

The first thing that calls for this similarity is the sight of bulldozers demolishing and removing Muslim homes under the pretext of building them without permits; condoning the crimes of Hindu groups, killing Muslims and others on identity, burning their homes, shops and properties; and the continuous repressive direct military rule in the Jammu and Kashmir region, which has been under illegal Indian occupation for 8 decades, despite all the United Nations and Security Council resolutions affirming the right of this region to self-determination through a fair referendum that determines its future.

Another settler-colonial project

India's recent attack on Pakistan shows how the world's inaction towards the Gaza genocide prompted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to escalate in Kashmir. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological correspondence between Zionism and Hindutva has never been clearer.

Mahnoor Ali, a lawyer, writer and activist on South Asia and the Middle East, recently wrote: "As bombs rain down on Gaza, and the world ignores what is happening, another settler-colonial project is making its presence. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological correspondence between Israeli Zionism and the Hindu Hindutva movement has never been more evident than now, with India attacking Pakistan.

With little international accountability for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has every reason to believe that he, too, can escalate his ethno-nationalist project with impunity.

When Israel bombs a hospital in Gaza, the world wonders if Hamas is hiding under it. When India bombs a mosque, the world ignores it! Isn't it likely to be a "den of terrorism"?! The international community's tolerance of Israel's bombing of refugee camps with American-made bombs set a horrific precedent, but it pushes other governments to commit atrocities with the same absolute freedom. India is paying attention.

Ideology, Strategy and Impunity 

Recently, this has been violently manifested. On May 6, India launched missile strikes on Pakistan under the banner of Operation Sendor, a name with deep Hindu cultural connotations. The Indian government claimed that these attacks were precise on "terrorist infrastructure" in response to the April 22 attack in the town of Pahalgam in occupied Kashmir, which killed 26 Hindu tourists. However, there is no solid evidence linking this attack to Pakistan. The investigation and verification order was of no importance to India. There is a need to check the facts when the goal is performance, and when the goal is to show dominance.

Nine targets were struck across Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir. In Bahawalpur, an Indian missile hit a mosque. One child was killed along with seven others. So far, 31 men and women have been injured. Civilians have been killed, grieving families have been left in ruins, and the Indian government has been quick to declare the operation "deliberate." But we've heard that word before. It is the same "sterile" language used every time, when Israel flattens a school in Jabalia or bombs a hospital in Khan Yunis. It is therefore a surgical bombardment, precise, and justified! The language of colonial war is carefully trained.

The solidarity between Zionism and Hindutva is not metaphorical, but material. India is now one of Israel's largest arms buyers. Surveillance systems developed in the occupied West Bank are now monitoring the neighborhoods of occupied Kashmir. Israeli drones terrorizing Gaza's skies are being sold to India to monitor unrest in Muslim-majority areas. Exchange not only in arms, but in ideology, strategy and impunity.

Stamping resistance with extremism

In 2019, when Modi abrogated Article 370 of India's constitution and stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its limited autonomy, it was an explicit declaration of settlement intentions. Tens of thousands of troops of the additional troops were deployed. Communications were cut off. Journalists were muzzled. The region was closed while India began to lay the legal foundation and infrastructure for demographic change.

But what about the model? It is Israel's continued occupation and settlement of the West Bank. Today, as Gaza is reduced to rubble and ashes, Kashmir is watching the situation. So is the rest of the Indian subcontinent.

Because it's not just Kashmir, it's about a broader and more extensive racist settler mandate for Hindu sovereignty across India: one that sees Christians, Dalits and Sikhs, and Muslims in particular, as obstacles to a pure (Hindu) national identity. Like Zionism, Hindutva portrays itself as ancient, sacred and intrinsically peaceful, so that any resistance to it can be stamped with extremism.

Recently, we have seen it again. As tragic as the Pahalgam attack, it was immediately used as a justification for cross-border violence. No thorough investigation. There is no room for doubt. No accountability for the consequences. This is Modi's version of Haspara's propaganda and media rules: flooding the media with claims of wisdom and letting the bombs do the rest.

Not separate battles

Victims, whether in Gaza, Bahawalpur or Srinagar, are always portrayed as a threat to the "peace" imposed on them. Their grief is seen as extremism. Their survival is disturbing. Their death is often deserved.

But it is not just governments, but the world that enables the occupation to go unpunished.

What bolddened Netanyahu boldly Modi too: the silence of so-called liberal democracies, the artificial concern of the United Nations, and the refusal of the United States, Britain and Europe to impose sanctions or cut aid. This teaches other authoritarian leaders a lesson: If you are useful, if you say the right words about terrorism, you can get away with anything.

Modi watches Gaza burn. He doesn't just watch, he learns, experiences and trains. Today I was targeted in Hawalpur with destruction and murder. And tomorrow it may be Lahore. Or maybe it's somewhere else entirely. But the message got there: the world will not intervene.

So, says Mahnoor Ali, as Palestinians resist siege and genocide, and Kashmiris struggle under Indian military occupation, our solidarity must be sharp, multifaceted, not apologetic. We must call these ideologies a spade: settler colonialism, fascism, apartheid and genocide. We must stop pretending that they are separate battles.

They are not separate battles. It's chapters of a scientist's story.