Western duplicity on human rights is evident – but is India following the same path?

The spectacle of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the joint session of the United States Congress on July 25 and the repeated standing ovations he received from lawmakers is among the most disquieting moments in modern politics.

Israel has in its 10-month war on Gaza killed over 39,000 people, 11,000 of them children, according to Palestinian Authority sources confirmed by experts. Tel Aviv says that these deaths occurred in its pursuit to eliminate Hamas, after the group’s attack on Israel on October 7.

Gaza’s entire physical infrastructure, including hospitals and water supply, stands destroyed. Everyone in Gaza is “injured, sick or both”, and famine is a reality for all of its inhabitants. This is due to “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people”, United Nations experts say. This is a genocide in full public view.

Efforts by the international community to halt the violence, including several by the United Nations General Assembly calling for a ceasefire, have failed to move Israel. Israel has also been impervious to public protests and campus encampments throughout much of the world.

All along, Israel has continued its wholesale targeting of civilians in Gaza, while Netanyahu and his cabinet have scuppered several attempts at reaching a ceasefire deal. Jewish settlers, working with the Israeli military, continue to wreak havoc against Palestinians in the...

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