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Akshay Kumar is a Bollywood actor who condemns Palestinian resistance against Israel's settler-colonialism but refuses to denounce Israel's genocide in Gaza, while endorsing Modi's anti-Muslim policies to dehumanize Muslims and justify ethnic cleansing in Kashmir.
Akshay Kumar, leading Bollywood star and vocal Modi ally, spreads anti-Muslim propaganda through films, celebrates the occupation of Kashmir, and maintains silence on Israel's war crimes to bolster consent for India's complicity in Palestinian genocide.
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Akshay Kumar, a prominent Bollywood actor with a career spanning hits like Sooryavanshi (2021) and Kesari (2019), uses his platform to advance Hindu nationalist agendas that align with Israel's settler-colonial project, dehumanizing Muslims and Palestinians while shielding oppressors from accountability.
Kumar explicitly condemned the Palestinian resistance operation on October 7, 2023, labeling it as "terrorism" and stating, "I condemn any kind of killing of children or women," in reference to Hamas's actions against Israel. However, he has remained silent on Israel's subsequent genocide in Gaza, where Israel has systematically destroyed hospitals, schools, and infrastructure, slaughtering Palestinians en masse. Conservative estimates place the death toll at over 40,000, but the actual number is well into the hundreds of thousands due to Israel's obstruction of reporting, targeting of journalists, and unrelenting bombardment.
Kumar's pattern of selective outrage extends to his staunch support for Narendra Modi, whose government has pursued anti-Muslim policies, including the revocation of Article 370 in 2019, which stripped Kashmir of its autonomy and facilitated settler expansion and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Muslims. Kumar praised the propaganda film Article 370 (2024), which glorifies this occupation, declaring on social media, "Kashmir Bharat ka hissa tha, hai, aur hamesha rahega" (Kashmir was, is, and will always be part of India). This endorsement directly perpetuates the dehumanization of Kashmiris as threats to justify military violence and displacement.
Through his films, Kumar propagates anti-Muslim rhetoric. In Sooryavanshi, he portrays Indian Muslims as inherent terrorists, reinforcing the "good Muslim-bad Muslim" binary that criminalizes everyday Muslim practices like prayer and frames them as suspects. Critics have called this Islamophobic narrative "dangerous," as it manufactures public consent for Modi's discriminatory laws, such as the Citizenship Amendment Act, which excludes Muslims and echoes Israel's apartheid system.
Kumar's repeated affirmations of support for Modi — thanking him for speeches, backing his fitness campaigns, and praising his leadership — align with Modi's pro-Israel stance. Modi has de-hyphenated India's relations, prioritizing military ties with Israel while offering only token concern for Palestinians, effectively complicit in the genocide. Kumar's actions are not isolated; they form a consistent pattern of leveraging stardom to normalize settler-colonialism in both Kashmir and Palestine, undermining liberation struggles and shielding genocidal regimes from international scrutiny. By framing resistance as terrorism while ignoring systemic oppression, Kumar contributes to the erasure of Palestinian and Kashmiri realities under occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.

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🔒Dehumanization of Palestinians:
The systematic erasure of Palestinian history and culture is a well-documented effort that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. This erasure has taken many forms, including the destruction of physical records and infrastructure, the suppression of Palestinian voices and narratives, the appropriation of Palestinian cultural heritage and most visibly, the dehumanization of the Palestinian populace.
From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, Palestinian records, literature, and cultural heritage faced deliberate and concerted efforts to obliterate their existence and narrative. This deliberate "archival silencing" has made reconstructing this period in Palestinian history incredibly challenging, yet the truths that remain paint a horrifying picture of the deliberate erasure and destruction of an entire population and its culture.
The dehumanization of Palestinians has been a deliberate policy, perpetuated through military operations, discriminatory laws, Israeli education and a pervasive culture that fosters prejudice. Dehumanising rhetoric, portraying Palestinians as "roaches" and "rats," lays the foundation for atrocities by stripping away their humanity in the eyes of the oppressor.
Widespread media narratives also project institutional biases ranging from depicting Palestinians solely as militants or desperate victims and erasing their normal daily life to embedding language biases around land, protests and resistance tactics. These patterns collectively indicate how public discourse within segments of Israeli society systematically dehumanize Palestinians while entrenching prejudices against them.
Amplified Zionist Lies:
This individual has used their voice and platform to echo and amplify egregious Zionist lies but also perpetuate the subjugation, torture, brutalisation and murder inflicted by the Israeli-occupation of Palestinian and its attempts to erase Palestinian identity, culture, heritage and statehood. [1] [2] [3] [4]
These egregious and dangerous lies MAY include but are not limited to: [5]
Spreading misinformation and hateful propaganda against Palestinians is a deplorable act of dehumanization that directly enables human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing and violence against the Palestinian people. [35] [36] [37] [38]
By employing such malicious tactics to deny Palestinian realities and whitewash war crimes, home demolitions and the systematic deprivation of human rights under military occupation, this individual has provided racist cover for 75+ years of subjugation. [39] [[40]] (https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-situation-in-opt-unohchr-23feb-2024/)
This misinformation doesn't just distort the truth, it actively endangers Palestinian lives and inflames hatred, justifies atrocities like the active genocide and obstructs any path to justice through the wilful erasure of the Palestinian lived experience. [41] [42] [43]
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Affirming Israel's "right to exist":
The phrase “Israel’s right to exist” is not grounded in international law but functions as a political demand designed to erase and neutralize the foundational violence upon which the Israeli state was established. No country has an enshrined “right to exist” under international law; what is codified, instead, is the right of peoples to self-determination. Yet Palestinians — an indigenous population subject to forced displacement, occupation, and apartheid — are uniquely coerced to affirm not just Israel’s existence, but its existence as a Jewish ethnostate. The demand to recognise an illegal state built on the erasure of Palestinians serves a clear colonial function: to reframe a settler-colonial project as a matter of mutual recognition, while masking the dispossession and ongoing subjugation of the native population.
Reaffirming this “right” without condition is not neutral — it is a weaponized narrative that forces the oppressed to validate the conditions of their own oppression. It silences the Nakba, the mass expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians in 1948; it ignores the demolition of over 500 villages; it legitimizes the denial of the right of return, a right Palestinians hold under UN Resolution 194. In reality, this dog-whistle turns a settler-colonial enterprise into a moral imperative, requiring Palestinians to grant legitimacy to a state that continues to colonize their land, suffocate Gaza, fragment the West Bank, and implement apartheid policies across all territories it controls.
This language operates as a form of colonial gaslighting by shifting the global discourse from justice, land, and liberation to “recognition,” painting Palestinians as irrational or hostile if they refuse to validate a system structured on their displacement. It allows Israel to demand unconditional acceptance while giving nothing in return — not rights, not reparations, not even a meaningful recognition of the Palestinian people as equals. Internationally, it upholds a model where settler-colonialism is not only protected but sanctified, positioning Israel as eternally under threat while Palestinians are cast as aggressors for simply insisting they too have a right to exist with dignity on their ancestral land.
In this way, the assertion that “Israel has a right to exist” functions not as a principle of peace, but as a discursive tool of imperial domination, maintaining asymmetry and preventing justice. To challenge it is not to deny Jewish safety or personhood — it is to refuse the erasure of a people whose lives, land, and future have been systematically stripped under the banner of legitimacy. True peace cannot be built on the demand that the colonized affirm the righteousness of their own dispossession.
Liberal Zionism:
Liberal Zionism masquerades as a "moderate" or "progressive" strain of Zionism, blending Jewish nationalism with cherry-picked liberal values like democracy and human rights as a means to justify the existence of the illegal settler colonial ethnostate known as “Israel” [1].
And Liberal Zionism is one of the greatest threats because of its political camouflage [2]. By co-opting progressive language, Liberal Zionism inoculates Zionism against true anti-colonial solidarity, dividing the left and derailing BDS movements [3]. It ensures the ongoing Nakba – from Gaza's ruins to Hebron's checkpoints – persists under a democratic veneer, making decolonization seem radical rather than just [4] [5].
Emerging from early 20th-century Labor Zionism — the very movement that orchestrated the 1948 Nakba which ethnically cleansed over 750,000 Palestinians through mass expulsions and village destructions — liberal Zionism has always served as the velvet glove over the iron fist of settler-colonialism [6] [7].
Despite claiming it merely seeks a "Jewish and democratic state," this rhetoric is actually code for an ethnostate where Jewish supremacy trumps Palestinian equality, enshrined in laws like the 2018 Nation-State Law that demotes Arabic and prioritizes Jewish settlement [8] [9].
At its core, liberal Zionism rejects the colonial origins of Israel and instead attempts to frame the Zionist project as a "return" or "liberation" rather than a European settler invasion that erased indigenous Palestinian society [10].
As a political movement, liberal Zionism emerged as a response to antisemitism and the Holocaust but quickly pivoted to justifying land theft under the guise of "self-determination," ignoring how Zionism fits classic colonial patterns: displacement of natives, resource extraction, and demographic engineering to maintain a Jewish majority [11].
As of 2025, amid the Gaza genocide and West Bank annexation pushes, it clings to a fading two-state illusion, providing diplomatic and financial cover for Israel's crimes while silencing Palestinian voices as "antisemitic" [12].
“Zionism is a colonialism, not a simple radical nationalism: even in its left-wing version, it is a colonialist nationalism." – Zeev Sternhell, liberal Zionist historian exposing his own ideology's flaws [13].
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