Leaders who deny the facts and focus on themselves lead many of today’s most harmful governments instead of strong problem-solvers or decisive leaders. These leaders amplify national identity, create problems to rule more firmly, and stifle challenges to their authority. Only two modern political leaders from around the world deserve special attention. The leaders of India are Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

These regimes use the same set of political tactics to label Muslims as eternal threats.

These leaders emerged from nationalist groups that turned to Islamophobia while occupying land and trying to keep democracy in check. The national government’s tools work strongly when leaders simultaneously fear themselves and the public. Modern India and Israel suffer most from having leaders whose actions blend majoritarian rule with militaristic methods.

The Indian Prime Minister Modi and the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu share an ideology, although they do not come from the same region. Hindutva and ultra-Zionism under Modi and Netanyahu generate similar forms of religious discord based on manufactured victimhood and racist supremacy views. These regimes use the same set of political tactics. These governments use strategies that label Muslims as eternal threats while discrediting resistance forces and posit military forces as necessary for national defence. The goal is not about defence but about controlling other nations. Their methods are not meant to guard safety, yet they aim to dominate nations.

Two dangerous matters unfolded during the attack at Pahalgam in Kashmir, while India controls this region. Significant evidence fails to link Pakistan with the Pahalgam incident, which now serves as yet another example of a baseless accusation. Over time, India’s state institutions developed skills in creating politically serving terror events. These staged violent events have repeatedly taken place around election times, international talks, or domestic instabilities since 2001. Every time Indian media declares Pakistan responsible, an immediate media frenzy lets the armed forces strike without limit. The Pahalgam incident matches all previous patterns of terror operations. The incident happened because Modi needed to take action on Kashmir issues and the economic meltdown at home and abroad.

We see more than counterterrorism at work here. It is narrative warfare. Modi’s India uses false flag operations to build public acceptance and information control, which serves the purpose of conducting military operations. The Kashmiri people who have been imprisoned for two years since the 2019 Article 370 revocation suffer most from India’s strategy. Eight million Kashmiris live bottled up under constant observation by military forces and internet restrictions. Indian society receives every day promotion of Islamophobia and patriotic feelings while sustaining an unhealthy view of Muslims. The situation behind these actions is more dangerous than it appears. Deposing this belief allows us to see through the false shield of fear.

Narrative warfare, not counterterrorism, fuels India’s operations in Kashmir.

Israel under Netanyahu follows the same tactics as the US but executes them more boldly. The Israeli government conducts repeated military interventions in Gaza to shield itself from scandals and keep its occupation status unchanged. In 2025, Israel launched one of its worst attacks on Gaza, which replicated established campaign patterns. Israeli soldiers flattened homes and fired on hospitals to kill innocent residents, who became the main target of criticism. People see Palestinian self-defence efforts as terrorism, but ignore that Israel commits war crimes under the name of protecting its nation. Constant destruction of entire neighbourhoods by the siege continues without fear of consequences.

Under Netanyahu, Gaza serves as both an enclosed confinement and the target of Israeli military strikes under official punishment rules. Politicians show their weakness by using military force. Like Modi, Netanyahu must silence dissidents who challenge his power base and approved story. His damaging attacks on Palestinians help him survive domestically in his political position. Like India, news organisations help hide real facts from the public.

Hindutva matches Zionism in many ways in terms of its execution and principles. These movements use victimhood to conceal their belief in one group’s superiority over others. Hindutva followers from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh want to eliminate Muslims and other minority groups from India. It effectively adopts essential fascist elements such as cleansing by race and religion while distorting history and promoting an aggressive national identity. In its extremist form, Zionism works to create a Jewish-only state by forcibly moving people and maintaining apartheid policies against them. Modi publicly praises the defence techniques and security systems of Israel. Indian policies to control Kashmir match how Israel runs its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza territory.

Gaza under Netanyahu serves as both an enclosed confinement and the target of military strikes.

Hindutva ideology uses Kashmir for its foundation, just as Zionism uses Palestine. A region that serves as a testing ground for transforming populations and battlefield techniques while warping public opinion. People in both areas have resisted for a long time. After many painful years of occupying their land, powerful oppressors encounter matchless courage from Kashmiri and Palestinian defenders who dismiss the labels of terrorist and traitor.

Pakistan cannot sit back and let this theatrical performance unfold in front of it. We need to oppose the Pahalgam story publicly. India tries to push lies at us, yet Pakistan should not let this propaganda slide by unopposed. Reflexive control works through psychological warfare tactics. When India creates trouble, it tells the world why it happened and blames Pakistan for it before waiting for an international response. We must combine factual resistance with strategy and global involvement to stop this repetition. The nation should clarify the real purpose of Hindutva extremism in public. State-sponsored terrorism.

As a sovereign state, Pakistan needs to take action from the position of a nation that seeks fair protection under international law. It needs to connect Kashmiri resistance to Palestinian resistance, then work with governments and community groups who fight this new oppressor. Media outlets and academic departments around the world spread anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan feelings in their research and communications. Pakistan needs to stop using these harmful systems and systems of thought instead of adopting and accepting them.

Kashmiris and Palestinians understand that freedom comes with dangers. People pay for freedom through bloodshed at home, in disrupted families, lost youths, and long-term loss of their cultural identity. The desire to fight back against injustice continues to thrive. They continue fighting the liberation battle without waiting for others to liberate them. They are already waging liberation. The people hold their dignity while a foreign military is on their territory. Their words remain clear even when tech limits and law enforcement shut them up. Their future will achieve justice as proven by all present challenges.

The planet now faces a choice to join the right side of human development. Will power politics make governments keep apartheid systems in place? Will the world remain passive in its refusal to take action? Our voice must fight for those whose fundamental human rights were taken away.

The leaders of India and Israel feel no danger beyond their borders. They fear internal awakenings. People in charge worry about changes that will give power to the wronged communities. They fear accountability. They fear the truth.

The United Nations and other international organisations, plus rights observers, should label Hindutva religion and Zionism by their real forms. These are not security doctrines. These ideas promote ethnic rule through nationalistic weapons and terror tactics by the state. They are not defending nations; they are destroying democracies.

Hindutva matches Zionism in execution, promoting supremacist ideologies masked by manufactured victimhood.

Neutrality today has lost its moral value for people all around the world. Silence is complicity. The growing partnership between Hindutva and Zionism endangers international laws and puts the rights of humanity at risk. The people in India and Israel who stand up against government actions have allies across the world.

People across the world, from Islamabad to Istanbul, as well as Kuala Lumpur to Cape Town, need to stand together against manufactured terrorist threats. In Srinagar and Gaza, the oppressed fight against more than military attacks. They are resisting erasure. And they are winning.

The freedom of these people is no longer a matter of doubt, but only depends on the passage of time.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. They do not represent the views, beliefs, or policies of the Stratheia.