Unpacking India Pakistan Escalation: The Israel Nexus in Kashmir & Palestine w/ Abdulla Moaswes
Unpacking History. This is a very welcome discusison.
What connects Kashmir and Palestine?
Is India replicating Israel’s settler colonial model in Kashmir?
How does the latest India–Pakistan escalation shift the regional balance—and what role does Israel play?
In this episode of FloodGate, we speak with Abdulla Moaswes, a leading scholar of decolonization and settler colonialism, to unpack the deep historical and political ties between the Kashmiri and Palestinian struggles.
We trace how Israel and India have built military, surveillance, and ideological ties over the decades—and how these ties shape repression in both occupied territories.
From Zionism to Hindutva, from settler expansion to resistance, this conversation connects the dots between the two most surveilled and militarized regions in the world.
It is important to understand that all of this religious and sectarian violence is being driven and enflamed. So, while it is fun to look at the jets or at the history (and I’ve figured out what I remember from Kashmir) we are looking at one of two things: A… Read more »
Please read this essay by the notable scholar, Professor Hilal Ahmed : https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/india-triumphs-pakistan-has-lost-the-war-on-political-ideas-prnt/cid/2099792#goog_rewarded “…Let us unpack the chronology of the present clash. The Pakistani army chief, Asim Munir, delivered a highly provocative anti-India speech prior to the Pahalgam attack. Munir made it very clear that Pakistan’s anti-India position stemmed from… Read more »
good news! there’ll be a follow-up. it’s complicated, it’ll take more than a new york minute.