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An extract from Hostile Homelands: the New Alliance Between India and Israel, By: Azad Essa Writer and journalist Azad Essa’s new book, Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel, (Pluto Press, 2023) is a forensic exploration of the changing relationship between India and Israel in the context of Hindutva, Zionism and new configurations of global capital and far-right politics. Below we publish an extract from the book which explains the implications of the new alliance known as “I2U2” (India, Israel, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates) or the “West Asia Quad”. Israel might have been the prize, but at the outset, Modi made it clear that the United Arab Emirates was also a central pillar of his foreign policy outreach. Having consolidated econom...

by Avani Chokshi Proposals for judicial overhaul in Israel by the conservative right-wing Netanyahu Government in January 2023 have shaken the country, and are being termed as the ‘end of democracy’ with mounting protests continuing for over 16 weeks. The changes, based on the claim that the judiciary has taken too much power for itself and is not a representative body, will have significant consequences for the country. The Government has proposed that the constitution of the judicial selection committee be changed to give the government a majority – which effectively allows government to choose judges, including the president. Apart from this, the government wants to restrict the capacity of the judiciary to strike down laws as unconstitutional.   Opponents of the move fe...