The New Dark Age

My column in the Deccan Herald newspaper on India’s fractured West Asian policies:

Deccan Herald, September 18, 2024

India’s military support to Israel is a hideous mistake

Doesn’t the government realise that this is adding to the growing perception internationally that the current government is ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘anti-Muslim’?

M K Bhadrakumar

It came as a disappointment that the Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud dismissed a joint petition filed by a distinguished group of intellectuals that the supply of arms from India to the Israeli military during the Gaza war is in violation India’s obligations under international law coupled with Articles 14 and 21 read with 51(c) of the Constitution.

The petitioners pleaded that the court had on previous occasions held that India is under obligation to interpret domestic law in the light of the obligations under the conventions and treaties that it has both signed and ratified. However, the apex court took note that this is an issue of foreign policy. The government is off the hook…

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/indias-military-support-to-israel-is-a-hideous-mistake-3195471