🇮🇳🇮🇱 From Savarkar to Golwalkar, why Hindutva admires Zionism https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/from-savarkar-to-golwankar-why-hindutva-admires-zionism-9057486/ Affinities between Hindu nationalism and Zionism are rooted in the long history of Hindutva’s admiration of Zionist ethno-nationalism, possibly because both have found a common enemy in their country’s largest religious minority. Hindu nationalists held a fascination with Jews and Zionism from day one as V D Savarkar expressed deep sympathy for a more comprehensive understanding of the Jewish race and underlined its appropriateness for the Hindutva ideology. He was not only inspired by Zionism and praised illegal colonial settlement but strongly believed that Hindus and Jews shared a history of oppression at the hands of Muslims and both deserved redress.