Hate is in the air. From In­dia to Is­rael and else­where. Hate against any peo­ple -de­pend­ing upon which side of the fence you are. The ubiq­ui­tous, os­ten­si­bly free YouTube Chan­nels are no less spir­ited in their zeal to spread ha­tred than their satel­lite avatars in spread­ing hate. In In­dia, go­ing a step ahead of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party gov­ern­ment, sid­ing with Is­rael, two self-anointed ex­perts -one a for­mer diplo­mat and one a se­nior jour­nal­ist -have spewed venom, giv­ing com­pe­ti­tion on the slate of hate to those in In­dia who are spread­ing hate on the streets, in the Mo­hal­las of cen­tral In­dia and in the In­dian Par­lia­ment. WSN takes note.

Indi­a’s “Diplo­mat & Diplo­macy Ex­pert” Deepak Vohra did some back-of-the-en­ve­lope cal­cu­la­tions and found a so­lu­tion that he an­nounced on prime-time tele­vi­sion – with the an­chor nod­ding ap­prov­ingly.

Kill 10 lakh Pales­tin­ian chil­dren for every 1,000 Is­raeli chil­dren killed – flat­ten Gaza.

You can watch him dis­pens­ing such wis­dom here. Do not for­get to see the over­whelm­ing nod of the an­chor.

Now, In­dian Ex­press’ colum­nist for al­most three decades and a fre­quent ped­dler of hate, Tavleen Singh, is ped­dling pure anti-Mus­lim ha­tred. She is not some Monu Mane­sar, not some ran­dom self-pro­claimed Gau Rak­shak lynch­ing a Mus­lim un­der the garb of cat­tle smug­gler ac­cu­sa­tions. This is ha­tred in its most sly form – be­ing ped­dled di­rectly into the minds of ‘ed­u­cat­ed’, Eng­lish-speak­ing young In­di­ans who want to see their coun­try be­com­ing ‘great’.

You can read her lat­est col­umn here:

Tavleen Singh writes: Does Is­rael have a choice but to fight for its right to ex­ist?

Very re­cently, she had openly ad­vo­cated ex­tra-ju­di­cial killings in for­eign ter­ri­to­ries.

“If Is­rael can get away with killing its en­e­mies in for­eign coun­tries, then why not us.”

The In­dian Ex­press has CLEARLY DE­CIDED to be­come a ve­hi­cle of HATE.

This year, the Guardian news­pa­per looked back 150 years to in­tro­spect how it was part of sup­port­ing slav­ery, and of­ten not back­ing abo­li­tion to the ex­tent it should/​could have. The time for reck­on­ing for In­dian jour­nal­ism will not take that long.

By the way, ku­dos also to the In­dian Ex­press, for Suraj Yengde’s col­umn to­day – “On Is­rael & Pales­tine…” – but that does not ab­solve it of the se­ri­ous sin of be­com­ing a ve­hi­cle of hate for pur­vey­ors of hate, if not pur­veyor of hate it­self.

You can read Suraj Yengde’s col­umn here – On Is­rael & Pales­tine, Hear Ambed­kar and Gandhi:

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