Auditing the Hindu American Foundation’s Claims of “Hinduphobia”
“According to the more than a dozen scholars, experts, and activists Jewish Currents spoke to for this story, HAF has political incentives to describe as many incidents as anti-Hindu as possible. For decades, the positions of the group’s founders have been aligned [politicalresearch.org] with Hindu nationalism. As such, HAF has consistently supported supremacist policies of Narendra Modi’s government in India, eventually earning a place on the Congressional Research Service’s list of Hindu nationalist groups operating in the United States in 2024. Pratik Sinha, co-founder and editor of the Indian fact-checking platform Alt News, told Jewish Currents that “the whole Hindu nationalist project is one of misrepresentation and misinformation,” and that groups like HAF create a narrative of Hindu victimhood in order to advance their politics.”