Indian Ignorance about Israel Or Israel’s & ADL’s Ignorance about India & Asia

We caution readers that the article below explores highly sensitive issues and is likely to offend many groups & constituents. The reasoning below is likely to come as a shock to those who are committed to only the European outlook of the world. We hope the shock becomes a wake up call and a trigger to greater education and understanding.

But first we would like to point out that ADL and Mr. Foxman, perhaps unknowingly, engaged in religious defamation themselves. The article on ADL’s website uses the defamatory term “Swastika” for the evil Nazi symbol. This defames the sacred, benevolent Hindu symbol Svastik. Originally Indian, the Svastik has been a global symbol of God’s benevolence for the last 2-3 millennia, from Greece, Rome, Europe to Japan and the Far East. 

As the National Director of a global organization, Mr. Foxman should know that the true meaning of Svastik and how Hitler changed its meaning and portrayal to create the Nazi Anti-Svastik. In case he does not, he should read The Svastik & Anti-Svastik; The Cross & Anti-Cross – Ignorance or Laissez-faire Racism?

2. History of World War II and Its Meaning to India & Asia

To Europeans, World War II was entirely about Nazi Germany, its conquest of European countries, its philosophy, its murderous actions against European Jews and Eastern Europeans. This was a reign of terror, of human rights crimes that lasted 10-15 years. That period and that regime creates revulsion in every person of European-descent and in every informed person in the world.

But to people in India and Asia, World War II proved to be an agent of liberation from British and European conquests & occupation. The Anglo-Europeans had unleashed a tide of wanton, barbaric unprecedented human rights crimes that lasted 2-3 centuries, not just 10-15 years. This was even worse than what Nazi Germany did. After all, the Nazi actions were the actions of one man and one regime. Europe’s atrocities in Asia were the premeditated, institutionalized actions of an entire continent, of an entire race against another continent, another race.

The 200-300 year long European spree of the worst crimes against humanity is unprecedented in world history. World War II liberated Asia from Europe’s evil. More specifically, the 1930s Germany was the unwitting agent of Asia’s liberation.

This is why attitudes towards World War II, Germany and Hitler are different in Asia than they are in Europe. So when ADL’s Foxman writes “Hitler’s name is seeping into India’s popular culture without any appropriate context“, he demonstrates his own ignorance of world history.  And it is he who needs to get more education about World War II.

There is no evidence that ADL’s Mr. Foxman or the European-American media has ever tried to learn or understand this Asian view of World War II.

3. Genocide of Millions under Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill

Mr. Foxman of the Jewish ADL is absolutely correct about the need for education about “the rampant anti-Semitism that led to the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust“. He refers to the Jewish Holocaust under Hitler.

But does Mr. Foxman or ADL know about the Indian Holocaust under Winston Churchill? In that holocaust, 4-7 million people died in Indian Bengal and Bihar. This Indian Holocaust took place in 1942-1943 or concurrently with the Jewish Holocaust in Germany. The Jewish Holocaust was mainly due to Hitler’s hatred of Jews. The Indian Holocaust was mainly due to Churchill’s hatred of Hindus. At least Hitler was a dictator. But Churchill was not. Yet, Churchill was able to coerce the British system to deliver to Hindus “the doom that is their due“.

Mr. Foxman and ADL probably don’t know much about Churchill’s deep hatred towards Hindus. So we reproduce some of Churchill’s words** below:

• Churchill exclaimed, “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”⁵⁶ – page 78
• According to Amery, the next day he “went off the deep end in a state of frantic passion on the whole subject…….India by the beastliest people in the world next to the Germans.”⁹ – page 106
• “Winston may be right in saying that the starvation of anyhow under-fed Bengalis is less serious than sturdy Greeks…” – Amery on Churchill – page 196
• “Winston, after a preliminary flourish on Indians breeding like rabbits…….asked Leathers for his view.”³⁸ – page 205
• More often that not the small,
  brown, fangless, and numberless Indians whom the frail old pacifist
  personified brought to Churchill’s mind a prey species  
• Back in London, Churchill told his private secretary that “the Hindus were a foul race ‘protected by their mere pullulation (rapid breeding) from the doom that is their due. He wished that Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris, the Head of the British bomber command, could “send some of his surplus bombers to destroy them   ‘”²⁰ – pages 246-247

Churchill chose his old friend Professor Frederick Alexander Lindemann, also known as “Baron Berlin“, to head his S Branch.  And what were the views of the infamous Baron Berlin:

• New
  technologies such as surgery, mind control, and drug and hormone
  manipulations would one day allow humans to be fine-tuned for specific
  tasks. Society could create “gladiators or philosophers, athletes or artists, satyrs or monks” at will…⁶⁴ – page 216
• At the lower end of the race and class spectrum, one would remove from “helots“ (the Greek word for slaves) the ability to suffer or to feel ambition. Science could yield a race of humans blessed with “the mental make-up of the worker bee.” This subclass would do all the unpleasant work and not once think of revolution or of voting rights.⁶⁴ – page 216
• The outcome would be a perfectly peaceable and stable society, “led by supermen and served by helots.”⁶⁴ – page 216
• To consolidate the rule of supermen – to perpetuate the British Empire – one need only to remove the ability of slaves to see themselves as slaves.⁶⁵– page 217

4. Legitimate Self-Interest – Different Standards for Israelis & Indians?

We seriously doubt whether Israelis know much about the genocide of Indians under Churchill. Even if they did, we doubt if that would make Israelis condemn Churchill as evil. The reason, we think, is simple. Regardless of what Churchill did in India, he was responsible for ending Hitler’s regime. Churchill was instrumental in removing the existential danger to Jews and that makes him admirable to Israelis and Jews.

We understand that because we realize that each society, each community judges world figures based on their impact on that society and community. But the Israeli Consulate in Mumbai, ADL, its National Director Abraham Foxman, and the New York Times don’t extend that understanding to Hindus.

Hitler was instrumental in ending Churchill’s and Britain evil, Nazi-like regime in India. His war weakened and nearly destroyed Britain. Without World War II, Britain would never have given up India, the foundation of its global empire. On this basis, Indians and Asians in general have a legitimate right to admire what Hitler did against Colonial Britain and Europe, the same legitimate right Israelis and Europeans have to admire what Churchill did against Nazi Germany.

To argue otherwise is to believe or state that European lives are more important than Asian or Indian lives. 

5. The Indian View – Congruent opinions of Israel and Hitler

This section is likely to surprise, even stun readers. Every one in Europe & America thinks of Hitler and Israel as mutually exclusive. Meaning if you like Israel, you are against Hitler and conversely if you are for Hitler, you are by definition against Israel. This is presumed to be a self-evident truth from a European mindset.