8/8/2023 0 Comments Shadows of doubt and fear![]() The Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights all guaranteed self-determination. But that is not the only international agreement guaranteeing this right. Time does not allow me to detail all the ways in which the brutal, racist regimes of Israel and India are similar, but I will discuss a few of them.Īrticles 1, 55, 56 and 73 of the United Nations Charter guarantee the right of self-determination of all peoples. Several international human rights groups have documented how Israel is an apartheid regime, yet the same behaviours are being perpetrated on the Kashmiris by India, and yet the same level of criticism is not leveled toward that country. If the Israeli people can do it, we can also do it. He said: “I believe … you will be able to go back … and you will be able to find security, because we already have a model in the world. I don’t know why we don’t follow it. He told Kashmiri Hindus and Indian nationals that India will build settlements in Kashmir modelled after Israel. How is India accomplishing this? On November 16 of 2019, three months after the abrogation of Article 370, Sandeep Chakravorty, India’s consul-general to New York City, was in New York attending a private event, and he clearly outlined the plan. The goal of settler-colonialism is, as Saito has expressed, “to establish a new state on someone else’s land.” 12 Once prevented from purchasing land in Kashmir, Indians are now free to do so, and are taking full advantage of that. Since the Abrogation of Article 370, thousands of Indians have moved into Kashmir, taking control, by force, of administrative positions in all areas, that were once held by Kashmiris. ![]() ![]() With settler-colonialism, the goal is to permanently occupy the nation or territory being colonized. Settler-colonialism differs from colonialism, the goal of which is to dominate an indigenous majority to fulfill the interests of the dominating nation, at the expense of the nation being colonized. There can be no doubt that India is a settler-colonial nation, with Kashmir as its victim. And India is following the Israeli model. Zionist beliefs in Jewish superiority parallel Hindutva beliefs in Indian superiority. Yet for the Kashmiris, even this limited attention is not granted, despite the fact that the brutal settler-colonial project that India is perpetrating on the Kashmiris equals if not exceeds that of Israel’s on Palestine. But generally, the myth of Israel as a democratic state is declared, although few outside of profit- and power-motivated governmental leaders believe it. Sometimes, following a particularly egregious crime, there will even be some news coverage about it. While few of the world’s governments seem to care about Palestine, at least their officials will occasionally pay lip service to the extreme violations of human rights and international law that the apartheid regime of Israel commits against the people of Palestine on a daily basis. ![]() Photograph Source: KennyOMG – CC BY-SA 3.0
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