What India’s Prime Minister Modi can teach us about Zionism

JVL Introduction

Helena Cobban, President of Just World Educational, looks at Narendra Modi’s anti-Muslim policies and offers a 5-step lesson in creating and defending an exclusivist, ethno/sectarian-nationalist state.

Guess what? Zionism has a lot to teach him…

Step 1: Politicize the whole issue of religious identity.
Step 2: Actions on borders and citizenship are crucial to the exclusivist project.
Step 3: Don’t forget to rewrite and reshape history and control how it gets taught
Step 4: Aggressively inscribe your claims onto the land through bold place-changing and place-naming moves
Step 5: Twin the exclusivizing steps taken at the formal/official level with building potent grassroots networks whose more extreme actions can be “denied” when necessary

This article was originally published by Mondoweis on Mon 23 Dec 2019. Read the original here.