OVERVIEW:
India is a critical partner to
the Amerikkkan and Israeli genocidal regimes. Successful resistance
campaigns against Israeli weapons manufacturing -- such as
Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard and Pal Action -- have alienated
Israel in the West. Therefore, the Zionist entity is increasingly
looking to India to expand weapons manufacturing. This is in
partnership with Indian industrialists such as the Adani group,
backed by foreign capital. India is also a treasure trove for the
critical minerals and rare earth elements required for the production
of electronics, renewable energy, military hardware and modern AI
technology, making it a critical asset for the U.S.-Israeli military
industrial complex.
U.S. imperialism has its claws
deep inside the Indian economy, using coercive methods and the threat
of tariffs to strong-arm the Indian State into pledging allegiance to
the United States of America. At the same time, the Indian State is
looking to strengthen its own Hindu-supremacist and expansionist
ambitions in the region with the help of imperialist capital,
U.S.-Israeli military intelligence and weapons infrastructure.
The strengthening of the
India-U.S.-Israel alliance has a direct impact on the broad masses of
India who are already struggling with unprecedented levels of hunger,
displacement and unemployment. The Narendra Modi regime has expedited
these conditions, selling the people's land to corporations like
Adani, and investing the people's money in military infrastructure to
suppress grassroots resistance.
This entire geopolitical,
military and corporate web can be understood through the resistance
of the Adivasi people of central India, and the Indian State's
genocidal campaign called Operation Kagar. The Stop Operation Kagar
Coalition NYC takes up the revolutionary battle cry of Jal, Jangal,
Zameen first popularized by the Adivasi people of India. We aim to
reveal the India-U.S.-Israel military and trade partnerships, and in
the process, create solidarity amongst the anti-imperialist struggles
in the imperial core, from Bastar to the Philippines, from Kashmir to
Palestine.
India’s Betrayal of
Palestine
The Indian National Congress
(INC) formed the government in India after independence in 1947.
India’s political leadership inherited a feudal economy hollowed
out by the British, an incomplete and fragmented Industrial
Revolution, and a largely landless and starving population. Instead
of implementing widespread land reforms and giving the country back
to the people, Indian politicians sided with the industrialists and
imposed market liberalization policies i.e., allowed the free flow of
foreign investment and aid into the country to fast-track India’s
industrialization. This started a process of neocolonial control that
haunts India’s foreign policy to date.
Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi and Minister of External Affairs PV Narasimha
Rao with Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation
Organisation who arrived in Delhi airport on March 3, 1980.
After a largely symbolic
independence, India had emerged as an anti-colonial leader in the
Global South, and was keen to keep up that image. During the Cold
War, India’s foreign policy was one of non-alignment; it can be
better understood as a balancing act — India manages its
relationship with emerging international powers such as China, Russia
and regional powers like Iran; while courting U.S. imperialist
capital to shore up domestic industrialists that sell off the
country’s indigenous land and natural resources. Even today, India
leads the BRICS bloc that is supposed to counter U.S. hegemony (it
doesn’t), while continuing to deepen trade and military
partnerships with the U.S. regime.
When it comes to India’s
foreign policy, reality has always clashed with rhetoric. In 1947,
India voted against the majority plan to divide Palestine at the
United Nations. Till date, Indian political leaders have paid lip
service to the cause of Palestinian self-determination, be it
aligning with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO),
declaring Zionism as racism (and then taking it back), advocating for
the two-state solution, and most recently, half-heartedly condemning
violence in Gaza. Digging past the theatrics, however, reveals the
true nature of the Indian State, and its long-standing,
once-clandestine, now-overt alliance with Israel.
After independence, when
Israel was still a nascent Zionist state, India saw the benefit in
using Palestine to strengthen its anti-imperialist image. As
neocolonialism spread throughout the world and Israel emerged as a
powerful arms supplier on the global market, India found alignment
with Tel Aviv against a common enemy, Pakistan. India had already
imposed a violent military occupation over Kashmir, and needed
munitions and training to maintain its stronghold. After India
revoked the special constitutional status and remaining autonomy of
Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, officials and commentators frequently
referenced adopting elements of an “Israel model” of control:
expanded surveillance systems, fortified checkpoints, security
infrastructure, and settlement-style development.
Brief History of Israel-India
Arms Deals
1962
Sino-Indian War:
first major supply of Israeli weapons to India
1965,
1971 Indo-Pak Wars:
Israel supplies weapons to India to fight against Pakistan over
Kashmir, and Bangladesh
1984
Operation Blue Star:
India’s CIA trains with Mossad in urban warfare
2014-2017
Modi assumes Prime Ministership: Imports of Israeli weapons increase
by 4x in early years of Modi regime
2025
Operation Kagar:
A genocidal paramilitary campaign by Indian State to serve corporate
mining operations and suppress resistance by indigenous populations
in India; Uses Israeli weapons and surveillance technology
2025
Operation Sindoor:
U.S. President Donald Trump claims he facilitated the ceasefire
between India-Pakistan military standoff over attacks in Kashmir
1999
Kargil War:
Israel supplies India with bombs, drones and anti-missile defense
systems over Pakistan border war
India has sent military
personnel to train in Israel in counter terrorism and border
management, invested in Israeli weapons, drones, and surveillance
technology to suppress indigenous resistance in Kashmir, the
Northeast States and the central mining belt. In 2010, India deployed
Israeli drones to surveil Naxalite (Maoist) resistance fighters in
the forests of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh.
Between 2003 and 2013, India
became Israel’s top arms customer. As of 2022, India accounts for
37% of Israeli weapons exports.
Figure
1: Trade Indicator Values of Israel’s arms exports (2011–2021,
figures in US$ millions)
India has sent military
personnel to train in Israel in counter terrorism and border
management, invested in Israeli weapons, drones, and surveillance
technology to suppress indigenous resistance in Kashmir, the
Northeast States and the central mining belt. In 2010, India deployed
Israeli drones to surveil Naxalite (Maoist) resistance fighters in
the forests of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh.
India, however, is not simply
a client state. India has ambitions to become a developed economy by
2047, on the backs of the farmers, workers, landless peasants and
indigenous populations that the Indian State continues to exploit in
service to imperialist capital. Since Narendra Modi came to power in
2014, this "Make in India" initiative has tried to promote
India as a global manufacturing destination. One of the key sectors
of the initiative is defense. India now jointly produces drones,
missile systems, surveillance platforms, and counterinsurgent
technologies with Israel. Following a $8.7 billion arms deal in
February 2026, Modi and Netanyahu are strengthening the defense
partnership between India and Israel, moving toward an
inter-dependent future, in more overt ways than seen in the past.
India’s Hindu-Supremacist,
Expansionist Ambitions
A central corporate actor in
this alliance is the Adani Group. Modi and Adani both came to power
in Gujarat, a state in the Western part of India that saw violent
anti-Muslim riots in 2002. Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, is
widely considered to be the orchestrator of these riots, and
experienced a major fall from grace. He was even banned from
traveling to the United States, until he became Prime Minister more
than a decade later.
To rebuild his image as a
political leader, he created the Gujarat Model of Development. He
partnered with loyal supporter Gautam Adani, offering the Adani group
large infrastructure projects. This helped to create a narrative of
progress, prosperity and nation-building that launched Modi to Prime
Minister, and Adani to India's largest power producer.
Adani Group has rapidly
expanded extraction and infrastructure projects across central India.
The company has partnered with Elbit Systems to manufacture drones
and other defense systems in Telangana, contributing to the growth of
India’s private military-industrial complex. Adani’s reach also
extends regionally to serve India’s broader expansionist ambitions.
In Bangladesh, Adani is developing a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant,
leveraging Bangladesh’s dependence on the Indian supply chain. In
Sri Lanka, the company is involved in the Colombo Port City project,
securing India’s maritime dominance amid growing Chinese influence.
In Nepal, Adani’s Upper Karnali Hydroelectric Project ensures
India’s control over regional energy, reducing Nepal’s reliance
on China. In Myanmar, Adani’s investments in the Kyaukphyu deep-sea
port enhance India’s strategic access to the Indian Ocean. Through
these projects, Adani not only drives corporate growth but also
furthers India’s geopolitical goals of regional leadership and
countering China’s presence in South Asia.
The political and economic
trajectories of Modi and Adani are intertwined, with large-scale
infrastructure contracts and privatization initiatives reinforcing a
development model that ties national economic growth to the rise of
major conglomerates. Here, foreign policy serves corporate goals and
vice versa. For example, India entered into an economic partnership
with Israel, U.S. and UAE called I2U2 in 2022. Soon after, Israel
sold its most important port in Haifa to Adani Ports to operate
jointly with Israeli company, Gador.
The Latest Frontier for
Exploitation
Critical minerals and rare
earth elements are resources essential for renewable energy systems,
electronics, and advanced military technologies. Semi-colonies in the
Global South, such as India and the Philippines, have an abundance of
these minerals, which genocidal regimes like U.S. and Israel need for
their forever wars. India, too, is waging its own war against
indigenous populations, currently through Operation Kagar, needing to
advance technologically and militarily to suppress Adivasi
resistance.
After the trade war initiated
by Trump, China retaliated against Zio-Amerikkkan tariffs by
forbidding the export of rare earth elements and its processing for
military use -- a rare power move by China that served the world a
wake up call. India, like the U.S. perceived this as a critical
national security threat, which led the Modi regime to declassify
more of its nuclear minerals and opening its rare earth elements
markets for foreign investment in 2026 to suit imperialist needs.
To counter China's dominance
and monopoly, the U.S. announced Project Vault, a $12 billion dollar
initiative funded by the U.S. and private investors to secure and
stockpile mineral sources and invest in processing to compete with
Chinese supply chains. This initiative is attempting to recruit
several countries, including India, to establish this alternate
stockpile and supply chain.
Within this shifting
landscape, inter-imperialist wars are expanding the scope for
extraction of natural resources around the world. Caught in the
middle, India seeks to balance longstanding ties with Russia, growing
cooperation with the United States, competition with China, and
deepening defense integration with Israel. Critical minerals located
in contested or militarized regions such as Bastar in central India
connect local land struggles to global weapons production and energy
transitions.
Operation Kagar, then, isn't
simply a military campaign the Indian State is conducting against the
Naxals in India. It's part of a repeated pattern of channeling the
global military industrial complex onto indigenous populations all
around the world.
The Stop
Operation Kagar NYC Coalition stands in the legacy of indigenous
resistance in India, and demands the following:
