In Episode 179 [13] of the CounterVortex podcast [14], Bill Weinberg compares the military and settler attacks [15] on Palestinian towns in the West Bank with the eruption of ethnic violence [16] in Northeast India's state of Manipur—and uncovers the unlikely connection between the two. The Kuki [17] indigenous people now targeted in Manipur includes a sub-group called the Bnei Menashe [18], who claim descent [19] from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, and practice an ancient form of Judaism. Israeli NGOs [20] are raising the alarm [21] about the violence in Manipur, but also exploiting it [22], luring Bnei Menashe [23] to emigrate to Israel [24]—with some of them settled on the West Bank [25], serving as demographic cannon fodder for the Zionist project. The Kuki and Palestinians, both land-rooted peoples usurped of their traditional territory, are pitted against each other—despite the convergence of their enemies in a Hindutva-Zionist alliance [26].
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