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Nov 13, 2018, 6:43 PM

Asian awards to mark centenary of British massacre

- The 9th Asian Awards will honour the victims of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre with the prestigious Founders Award - The 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre falls on 13th April 2019 - The centenary will be marked with a special...

Jul 30, 2018, 11:34 PM

Israel has every right to celebrate its national identity

JERUSALEM - MARCH 15: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addresses the Israeli Knesset on March 15, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. This is the first official visit to the country by a Brazilian president and Da Silva is expected to tour the region. (Photo by Jim Hollander - Pool/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

After the Israel Knesset passed the contentious ‘Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People’ legislation there was joy, disbelief, hatred, spite, and frothing rage. Now that some semblance of calm has fallen upon the matter, we...

May 18, 2018, 2:32 PM

Defending its very right to survive against Hamas terrorists

Monday’s defence by the IDF was not an act of genocide or an attempt to ethnically cleanse, it is part of a continual and very ugly battle to repel those who want to obliterate the Jewish Homeland. Israel was forced...

Apr 5, 2018, 11:30 PM

Why Israel can always depend on Narendra Modi’s India

Ask many Israelis who have actually met Narendra Modi how they would describe him, their words almost entirely glow with admiration “very tachles, very direct, very Israeli” was one of the most telling descriptions early in his premiership at the...

Mar 25, 2018, 12:46 PM

Does Twitter give Hamas a platform to spread their hate?

Incitement to violence has deadly consequences and the new medium to do this within is social media. Unless Twitter acts to uphold the policy it advocates, it risks being complicit in Hamas’s agenda. For example, on March 15, 2018, Hamas...

Dec 5, 2017, 7:42 PM

What’s the Wisdom of Moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?

US President Donald Trump has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he plans to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He made the admission during a phone call with Abbas on Tuesday, according to...

Nov 3, 2017, 3:19 PM

Why are India-Israel ties so valuable?

Earlier this week India dispatched a C-130J 'Super Hercules' aircraft, along with a 45-member army contingent to Israel to take part in the multilateral 'Blue Flag-17' exercise which runs from November 2 to 16. This is an important development as...

Jun 29, 2017, 4:43 PM

The best is yet to come for Indo-Israeli ties

Many within India and Israel await the outcome of the historic visit by Indian PM Narendra Modi. Modi will be the first Indian PM to ever visit Israel and he will not be visiting the Palestinian Authority while in...

Apr 27, 2017, 7:01 AM

Namaste Netanyahu and Shalom Modi: A New Hope

'Prime Minister Modi's visit to Israel will be monumental'--Daniel Carmon It will be the first-ever official visit to Israel by a sitting Indian prime minister. Narenda Modi’s visit to Israel (rumours are it will be in July) is hugely significant in...

Mar 25, 2017, 6:13 PM

The real fight against Radical Islam lies with Muslims themselves

Those who advocate peace cannot allow the murderers to hijack their religion simply because they choose to look the other way through instransigence. Ordinary Muslims cannot continue to objectify themselves as victims in the fight against radical Islam, they have...

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Saurav Dutt is a published author, lawyer and political columnist who has written for IB Times and been featured in The Independent, Sky News, BBC and more.