The Imitation Game: With Zionist Help, Hindutva Ideology Rises in America
”For example, in 2013 and 2019, HAF mobilized [politicalresearch.org] to defeat congressional efforts to include ‘a human rights framework within the growing US-India strategic relationship and criticized Hindutva.’ It also successfully ‘urged legislators to pass a resolution that would elevate India to a major non-NATO ally…of the US’ as well as to pass an amendment to ‘bolster US-India ties’ as part of the National Defense Reauthorization Act. In 2021, when South Asian academics created a conference called ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva,’ HAF ‘accused the conference of platforming…Hinduphobic discourse’ and expressed concerns that the event would impact Hindu students who already ‘report feeling under attack.’ (Tellingly, ‘it provided no proof that Hindu students…had experienced any such hate crimes on account of discussions about Hindu The belief in the primacy of “the nation” as the most important political allegiance, that every nation should have its own state, and that it is the primary responsibility of the state and its leaders to preserve the nation. Learn more at universities.’) And in 2022, HAF tried to push congresspeople to ‘back a ban on sustainment packages for F-16 fighter jets sold to Pakistan due to that country’s alleged persecution of its Hindu minority.’ HAF also allegedly has a ‘fiduciary relationship’ to the Indian Embassy, which would make it an unregistered foreign agent in the United States.”