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.
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:
Stop Operation Kagar
Demilitarize and Decorporatize Adivasi Land
Ceasefire between the revolutionaries and the Indian State
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