It must be said, and said right away, that India is witnessing its very own desi version of last summer’s US campus protests spun around the theme of boycotting, disinvesting and sanctioning Israel for its perceived oppression of Palestinians. The ‘BDS’ movement, as it came to be known, was cleverly crafted by the American Left-liberal intelligentsia, among them Jews who would rather see the Jewish homeland ‘wiped off the face of the world’, as Israel’s implacable foes continue to threaten to do, than be disowned, isolated and put in the proverbial dog house by fellow intellectuals.

Have we forgotten? A file picture of children in New Delhi in 2007, protesting the lack of action to help the Kashmiri Pandit community. Pic/AFP