The India–Israel Alliance the World Still Doesn’t Understand | Hindol Sengupta

00:00 Intro – India & Israel: Ancient Civilizations, Young Nation States 00:37 Are India and Israel misunderstood in the same way? 01:21 The shared idea of a civilizational homeland 02:15 India’s history of invasions and cultural survival 03:05 The Jewish dream of “Next Year in Jerusalem” 03:52 Why Hindus and Jews tie identity to homeland 04:38 Civilizational identity vs Western misunderstanding 05:15 Why India and Israel are unique democracies in their regions 06:08 Are India and Israel civilizational states? 06:45 Why Western thinkers fear civilizational states 07:40 India’s 5,000-year civilizational continuity 08:33 If a civilization is plural, the state can be plural 09:18 Why Israel remains the only democracy in West Asia 10:36 Why are India and Israel accused of “majoritarianism”? 11:15 Hindol responds to Western double standards 12:02 Why the West misunderstands Hindu civilization 13:05 Why nationalism is different in India 14:03 Looking at the map – Israel as a tiny nation 15:06 “From the river to the sea” explained 16:15 Why denying Jewish statehood is fundamentally wrong 17:31 Jews and Hindus: the oldest surviving civilizations 17:45 “People of the mind” – intellectual ci