Following the release of the Indian edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, here’s a very strong review by Marcy Newman in the leading Indian outlet, The Wire:
In the last several months, in Karnataka alone, India has put on display the ways in which it colludes with Israel’s militaristic economy. In February, the Invest Karnataka meeting in Bengaluru, featured a panel titled ‘Sky to Soil: How Indian-Israeli Cooperation in Drones, Agri-Tech, and Clean Energy is Driving Sustainable Innovation.’ Just after the brief ceasefire took effect in late January, this meeting presented the ruse of military technology being used to support sustainable agriculture. This is Israel’s agro-diplomacy and it’s one of the many ways it dupes the Global South into collaborating on militarised agribusiness deals. One doesn’t have to look much farther than Israel’s scorched earth policy in Gaza, where farmers are met with empty fields and toxic soil, to know that sustainable agriculture is the farthest thing from their agenda.
In fact, in Narendra Modi’s India, Israel doesn’t have to camouflage its intentions at all. In Bengaluru’s Aero India 2025 event, also held in February, the Embassy of Israel – Defense Section, along with its heaviest hitters, Elbit Systems, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, and Israel Aerospace Industries, exhibited their wares which are responsible for massacring tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Read the whole piece: What India Buys Into When It Buys Israeli Arms – The Wire