Global Watch | PM Modi’s Strategic Israel Visit And The Politics Of Narrative Warfare

By strengthening ties with Israel while backing a two-state solution for Palestine, India shows an ability to balance strategic partnerships with historic principles of diplomacy

Al Jazeera, a Qatar-backed influential media platform known for peddling Islamist propaganda, has carried out another hit job with its biased reporting aimed at discrediting India’s diplomatic engagement during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strategic visit to Israel. Its coverage is full of factual inaccuracies, misleading claims, and attempts to misrepresent India’s policies on Kashmir, Palestine, and international relations.

In the run-up to Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Israel, Al Jazeera published an article titled “Kashmir, spying, demolitions: How Modi’s India embraced ‘Israel model’". The timing and content of this piece make it clear that the article was designed to discredit India’s diplomatic engagement and cast the visit in a negative light. The article was published on 24 February 2026, just one day before PM Modi’s scheduled visit to Israel — a fact that speaks volumes about its intent rather than its objectivity.

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Al Jazeera’s article claims that India has “openly embraced Israel" and suggests that New Delhi has borrowed “security and administrative approaches" from Israel, pointing to issues such as home demolitions, “bulldozer justice", and spyware surveillance in India’s internal security policies. It also highlights selective debates on Indian TV that refer to Israeli tactics. These assertions are misleading and factually incorrect. Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and........

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