Quick Opinion/ India least anti-Semitic in world, Hindus don't understand anti-Semitism: Canadian journalist

(This article is written by Canadian Journalist Daniel Bordman.)

Some behind the scenes information about my recent success in the Indian media market over the last month that I feel is important to share now: People started reaching out to me with "my best interest at heart" telling me to be very careful who I am getting in bed with. The general gist of these conversations is that I got the Hardeep Singh Nijjar case wrong and I should trust the Canadian intelligence agencies. 

I would not push back on these people at all, instead I would act concerned and ask questions fishing for their knowledge of the Khalistani problem in Canada. Not a single one of them had any clue what they were talking about on the most basic level, and that told me what I needed to know. All these conversations had one thing in common though, I would be cautioned that as a Jew, my reputation would be destroyed because Modi and the BJP are a very antisemitic movement, Hindutva, far right Hindu nationalism, blah blah blah. 

I would then be shown images of Indians with Swastikas, as if I didn't have the most basic understanding of the Hindu religion and what that symbol means to them. But these people didn't do their research on me, this is not my first exposure to Indian society. For years I been involved in some way in their community. I can say in full confidence that INDIA IS THE LEAST ANTISEMITIC SOCIETY IN THE WORLD. I would crack self-deprecating Jewish jokes around my Indian friends and they would just stare blankly at me. They literally did not understand antisemitism because they were totally unaware of all the antisemitic stereotypes. Hatred towards Jews is something that is completely absent from the Indian mind. It's wonderful to be around. 

Now, the "good guys" Congress (major Left wing party), the people I was told to back as a Jew, have come out in vocal support of Hamas and their indiscriminate slaughter and rape of Jews. Juxtapose that to the BJP response which has rallied the majority of the nation to the side of Israel and the global Jewish population. To my Jewish friends, don't let the corrupted academics and talking heads do to Hindus what they did to us. Want to fight Anti-Zionism? Stand with the Indian community when you see the same anti-Hindutva propagandists pushing the same lie reconfigured.