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As conflict in the Middle East intensifies, India’s relationship with Israel deepens

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 1547 words · By Niha Masih
India-Israel Strategic Relations Human Rights and International Law Hindutva and Zionism Ideology
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For this week’s newsletter, I’m looking at India’s evolving relationship with Israel, and how it has deepened as conflict swept across the Middle East.

Claims checked 18
Techniques found 2
Topics 3

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What happened

For this week’s newsletter, I’m looking at India’s evolving relationship with Israel, and how it has deepened as conflict swept across the Middle East.

Why it matters

Why is it that India has formed an even closer bond with a country that has faced mounting international isolation and backlash over a military campaign in Gaza that has left the territory in ruins and killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, – many of whom were…

Common ground

Under Narendra Modi, India’s ties with Israel have taken on a different character, for a country that once championed the Palestinian cause and led the Non-Aligned Movement.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Anger: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Why it matters: Recognizing loaded language helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Appeal to Anger 70% confidence
Provoking outrage to bypass rational evaluation of an argument.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing appeal to anger helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Amnesty identified three state-owned Indian companies – Munitions India Limited, India Optel Limited and Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited – supplying Israel with weapons”
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Claim 2: “The Yogi Adityanath-led state government in Uttar Pradesh has spent approximately £530m (Rs. 6800 crore) on advertisements and publicity since it came to power eight years ago”
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Claim 3: “India was now a key part of Israel’s weapons supply chain”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general history and geography of India, with no mention of weapons supply chains to Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Policies of company rule in India led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857. India was afterwards ruled directly by the British Crown, in the British Raj. After World War I, a nationwide struggle for indepe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India
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web search NEUTRAL — The Oxford English Dictionary (third edition - 2009) says that the name "India" comes from the Classical Latin name India. It was originally used for the Indian subcontinent and the areas to its east.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · India is a country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic that represents a highly diverse population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups. It i…
https://www.britannica.com/place/India
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Claim 4: “A Pew Research survey published in June found that more Indians view Israel favourably (32%) than unfavourably (28%)”
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Only one web search result explicitly mentions the 32% favorable vs 28% unfavorable figures from a June Pew Research survey. Other Pew results discuss different topics (UN views, global views of India).
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web search NEUTRAL — New Delhi: A survey by US think tank Pew Research Center has found that up to 46 percent of adults from 23 countries — including the US, Canada, Israel, Italy, the UK, South Korea and Poland — hold a …
https://theprint.in/india/global-public-opinion-of-india-is-…
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web search NEUTRAL — A Pew Research survey published in June found that more Indians view Israel favourably (32%) than unfavourably (28%). This is in contrast to the decline of support for Israel in many western countries…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/10/this-is-india-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In India, favorable views are about twice as common as unfavorable views, though 41% do not offer an opinion. People in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Colombia, Peru and Brazil also see the UN i…
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/27/many-acro…
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Claim 5: “Modi’s visit to Israel earlier this year came just 48 hours before Israel and the United States launched their attacks on Iran”
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Claim 6: “In 2024, a group of civil servants, activists and academics petitioned the supreme court, demanding India suspend its military exports to Israel. The court dismissed the case”
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Claim 7: “In 2017, he became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of stock market data for a company called Ferreycorp, which is entirely irrelevant to Narendra Modi's visits to Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest Ferreycorp S.A.A. (FERREYC1.LM) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FERREYC1.LM/?fr=sycsrp_catch…
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Get the latest Ferreycorp S.A.A. (BVL:FERREYC1) stock price quote with financials, statistics, dividends, charts, historical data and more.
https://stockanalysis.com/quote/bvl/FERREYC1/
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Ferreycorp S.A.A. advanced stock charts by MarketWatch. View FERREYC1 historial stock data and compare to other stocks and exchanges.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ferreyc1/charts?…
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Claim 8: “Indian companies, including state-owned enterprises, have delivered drone warheads, artillery shell casings, small arms parts and military vehicle components to Israeli military suppliers”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Indian companies supplied drone warheads, artillery shell casings, small arms parts, and military vehicle components to Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Based on the data, the organisation said Indian companies supplied at least 390,516 small arms parts for military-grade weapons, 564,970 explosive ordnance parts, including drone warheads and artiller…
https://web.archive.org/web/20260731134312/https://www.indep…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to verified customs data, the consignments included at least 564,970 explosive ordnance components, including parts for 155mm high-explosive artillery shells, drone warheads and artillery sh…
https://kmsnews.org/kms/2026/07/31/indian-weapons-sent-to-is…
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web search NEUTRAL — The haul includes 564,970 parts of explosive ordnance — drone warheads, artillery shell casings and more — plus 390,516 small arms components and 298 parts for armoured military vehicles.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/indias-arms-exports-israel-genocid…
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Claim 9: “military campaign in Gaza that has left the territory in ruins and killed more than 70,000 Palestinians”
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Multiple web search results cite the Hamas-run health ministry reporting death tolls exceeding 70,000 (specifically mentioning figures like 71,660 and 73,000).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes code-named as Operation Breaking Dawn lasted from 5 to 7 August 2022. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted some 147 airstrikes in Gaza and Palestinian militants fired…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Gaza–Israel_clashes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, the targe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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Claim 10: “Between 2021 and 2025, New Delhi was Israel’s largest defence customer, accounting for 29% of total arms sales, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute”
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Claim 11: “Founded in 2019, Skims raised $225m in capital last year, valuing the company at $5bn”
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Claim 12: “Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand, Skims, is coming to India in partnership with Reliance Brands”
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Claim 13: “Floods in the north-eastern state of Assam have killed 100 people and displaced tens of thousands of people”
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Claim 14: “Amnesty said it traced hundreds of thousands of weapons components shipped from Indian factories to Israeli military suppliers between 7 October 2023 and 30 November 2025, including: 390,516 small arms parts for military grade weapons, 564,970 parts of explosive ordnance, 298 components of military vehicles”
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While the specific 'Amnesty' attribution is not explicitly named in the snippet, three separate web search results report the exact same specific numbers: 390,516 small arms parts, 564,970 explosive ordnance parts, and 298 military vehicle components.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2008 Mumbai attacks, colloquially known as 26/11, were a coordinated series of twelve Islamic terrorist attacks carried out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, from 26 to 29 November 2008, by ten membe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2019 (MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of Indian cinema films released in 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_films_of_2024
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Claim 15: “another commission found that Israel is continuing to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children”
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Multiple web search results confirm a UN independent commission of inquiry found that Israeli forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the ongoing Gaza war, Israeli male and female soldiers, guards and medical staff have reportedly committed wartime sexual violence against Palestinian women, children and men including rape, ga…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palest…
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Claim 16: “Last year, the government told parliament that more than 20,000 Indian workers, in construction work and caregiving, had moved to Israel after an agreement signed in November 2023”
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Claim 17: “An independent United Nations commission of inquiry concluded in September that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza”
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Confirmed by a cross-reference (Al Jazeera) and multiple web search results (NPR, etc.) stating a UN commission of inquiry concluded in September that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, romanized: Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. 'Operation Strong Cliff'), and Battle of the Withered Grain (Arabic: معركة …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, the targe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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Claim 18: “the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of committing war crimes”
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Confirmed by Wikipedia and multiple cross-references (Al Jazeera, Dailydispatch) that the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2024 for war crimes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court are those sovereign states that have ratified, or have otherwise become party to, the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute is the t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_parties_to_the_Rome_Sta…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organisation and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. Established in 2002 under the multilateral Rome Statute, the IC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 21 November 2024, following an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two senior Israeli officials, Benjamin Neta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_arrest_warrants_for_Israel…
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