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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, February 02, 2024 2:00 pm to 4:00
  pm \n Online \n\nSpeakers \nAzad Essa \n\nDescription: \nOnline, via Zoo
 mAzad Essa will discuss his 2023 book Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance 
 Between India and Israel with Profs. Francis Cody and Alejandro Paz. ABOUT
  THE TALKUnder Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the worl
 d attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a '
 Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu State), little attention has been paid to the linka
 ges between Modi's India and the governments from which it has drawn inspi
 ration, as well as military and technical support. India once called Zion
 ism racism, but, as Azad Essa argues, the state of Israel has increasin
 gly become a cornerstone of India's foreign policy. Looking to replicate t
 he 'ethnic state' in the image of Israel in policy and practice, the anne
 xation of Kashmir increasingly resembles Israel's settler-colonial project
  of the occupied West Bank. The ideological and political linkages between
  the two states are alarming; their brands of ethnonationalism deeply int
 ertwined.Hostile Homelands puts India's relationship with Israel in its hi
 storical context, looking at the origins of Zionism and Hindutva; India'
 s changing position on Palestine; and the countries' growing military-ind
 ustrial relationship from the 1990s. Lucid and persuasive, Essa demonstra
 tes that the India-Israel alliance spells significant consequences for dem
 ocracy, the rule of law and justice worldwide.ABOUT THE AUTHORAzad Essa i
 s an award-winning journalist and author based between Johannesburg and Ne
 w York City. He is currently a senior reporter for Middle East Eye coverin
 g American foreign policy, Islamophobia and race in the US. He is the aut
 hor of The Moslems are Coming and Zuma's Bastard and has written for Al Ja
 zeera, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy and the Guardian. Linah Alsaa
 fin is a Palestinian journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Open
 Democracy, Al Monitor, Middle East Eye, the Times Literary Supplement,
  and Al Jazeera.ABOUT THE PANELFrancis Cody is an Associate Professor in t
 he Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of
  Toronto, where he is the Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Contem
 porary Asian Studies and the Centre for South Asian Studies. His research 
 focuses on language, politics, and media in southern India. He first bro
 ught these interests to bear on a study of citizenship, literacy, and so
 cial movement politics in Tamil Nadu.Alejandro Paz is an Associate Profess
 or of Anthropology and Co-chair of the Hearing Palestine Initiative. Profe
 ssor Paz's research addresses the role of language in globalization, tran
 snationalism and diaspora. He is also interested in the relation between p
 ublic communication, media, and citizenship with a regional focus on Isr
 ael and the Middle East.Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian In
 stituteCo-Sponsor: the Hearing Palestine Initiative \n\nContact Informatio
 n: \n Asian Institute asian.institute@utoronto.ca \n\nSponsors \nCentre fo
 r South Asian Studies, Asian Institute Co-Sponsor: the Hearing Palestine 
 Initiative \n\nCategories \n Discussion PanelsLectures \n\nAudiences \n Al
 umni and FriendsCommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsGradua
 ting StudentsProspective Graduate StudentsProspective Undergraduate Studen
 tsStaffUndergraduate Students
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SUMMARY:Azad Essa's 'Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India' Boo
 k Discussion with Francis Cody and Alejandro Paz
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.history.utoronto.ca/events/azad-essas-hostile-home
 lands-new-alliance-between-india-book-discussion-francis-cody-and-0
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