The growing strategic understanding between Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu is a civilizational and geopolitical threat to the Muslim world. The ongoing military confrontation involving direct Israeli attacks on Iran has intensified regional instability and confirms the dangerous direction of this alliance.
What is unfolding before the world is the convergence of Hindutva and Zionist worldviews. This partnership is not limited to regional politics; it is shaping global power dynamics in ways that threaten peace and human dignity. The Muslim world must recognize this challenge as one of the defining political realities of the present century.
India once maintained relatively cordial diplomatic relations with Iran, but during periods of international pressure on Tehran, India chose to align itself with the political and strategic camp opposing Iran. This pattern reflects the broader strategic orientation of New Delhi’s foreign policy. Both Israel and India pursue policies that undermine peace in their respective regions. Israel has repeatedly violated international norms in the Middle East and disregarded multiple United Nations resolutions. India is following a similar trajectory in South Asia. I see both states as displaying open indifference toward the principles of international law and the United Nations Charter. Israel’s record includes repeated allegations of war crimes, and India has also been accused of weakening the legal and ethical foundations of international order in South Asia.
Israel is an occupying and discriminatory state, and India is moving in a similar ideological and political direction. Neither Zionism nor Hindutva accepts the principle of coexistence as the foundation of regional order.
The Zionist concept of “biblical lands” and the Hindutva ideas of “Bharat Mata” and “Akhand Bharat” are essentially expressions of the same expansionist imagination.
Zionism is the cancer of the Middle East, and Hindutva is the cancer of South Asia. These two ideologies share a disturbing worldview rooted in racial and civilizational exclusivism. Both function as expansionist and occupation driven political doctrines. Both have violated the spirit of the United Nations Charter. Hostility toward Pakistan forms an integral part of their strategic and ideological posture. Beyond political and economic competition, even their religious and civilizational narratives carry elements that are hostile to humanistic values. I consider these two ideologies to be dangerous ideological twins because of their striking similarity. The Zionist concept of “biblical lands” and the Hindutva ideas of “Bharat Mata” and “Akhand Bharat” are essentially expressions of the same expansionist imagination.
Zionism promotes the belief that God granted the Jewish people land stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. This belief has been transformed into a civilizational doctrine in parts of Israeli political culture. The idea that territories mentioned in the Torah belong exclusively to the Jewish people represents a theological justification for territorial expansion, and it directly challenges international legal principles.
In a similar manner, the ideology of Akhand Bharat represents a civilizational claim over the subcontinent. The concept treats the entire region as an extension of Bharat Mata and rejects the legitimacy of political boundaries separating neighboring nations. I see this as a political and ideological imagination that threatens the sovereignty of surrounding countries.
These ideas have moved beyond religious symbolism and have become embedded in the political structures supporting both movements. The biblical lands doctrine has gained institutional acceptance within Israeli state discourse, while the symbolism of Bharat Mata is promoted not only as a cultural motif but also as a civilizational political vision within sections of the Indian state. When India inaugurated its new parliament building, it displayed a symbolic map of Akhand Bharat rather than a map reflecting internationally recognized Indian borders. The map included Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar as parts of a larger imagined civilizational territory.
Israel has similarly displayed territorial imagery within its parliamentary spaces that reflects a geographical imagination extending from the Nile toward the Euphrates.
Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories are being replicated through administrative and strategic models applied in Kashmir.
Israel’s systematic land acquisition in the West Bank, accompanied by displacement of Palestinian communities, is a pattern that is being reproduced in Kashmir through land control measures.
In Palestine, Israeli policies have involved forced displacement, restriction of property rights, tightening of citizenship regulations, fragmentation of communities, and transfer of land ownership toward state or settlement structures. I see similar administrative and legal approaches being introduced in Kashmir under Indian governance.
The legislative framework concerning Muslim waqf properties and the implementation of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act resemble, in my view, the property and administrative mechanisms used in Israeli law, including regulations similar to the absentee property system applied in Palestinian territories.
New legislation introduced in Indian administered Kashmir appears designed to alter the Muslim demographic balance of the region and expand state authority over land resources. Supporters present these measures as development oriented, but I regard them as instruments of political and demographic engineering.
India and Israel are working within what I call a “West Bank formula”. Settlement expansion and demographic restructuring methods used in the West Bank are being studied and potentially adapted for Kashmir.
Both countries have adopted assertive military and strategic postures toward their neighboring states. Their foreign policies are driven by a security doctrine that prioritizes territorial dominance over cooperative regional coexistence.
The Muslim world and the world at large must understand the gravity of this challenge before it is too late.
The writer is a lawyer and author based in Islamabad. He tweets @m_asifmahmood