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Parallel settlements: A. Moaswes, Interconnections Across Palestine and Kashmir: The Politics and Economy of Indian-Israeli Settler Colonialism, PhD dissertation, University of Exeter, 2025

27Jun25

Abstract: The strengthening of political and economic ties between Israel and India in recent decades has prompted the emergence of a body of academic and activist literature that has placed Israel’s violence against Palestinians and India’s against Kashmiris in a comparative and analogical frames. Taking the relationship beyond that of analogy and comparison, this study seeks to explore the dynamics behind how the development of interconnections between Israeli and Indian settler colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir play into their mutual reinforcement. Viewing these interconnections as existing beyond the scope of Indian-Israeli diplomatic ties, but rather as parts of wider networks of relationships that weave settler colonial processes into the fabric of global political and economic flows, this project therefore prompts the question of what these interconnections reveal about world capitalism in the current century. In addition to examining the global role of interconnections between two of the longest running cases of colonialism instigated during the supposed era of global decolonisation, this study’s specific focus on Israeli settler colonialism’s relationship with that of India spotlights a key blind spot of much postcolonial literature, which fails to address the phenomenon of postcolonial states enacting forms of colonialism and its role in contemporary worldmaking. By examining the relationship between the cases of settler colonialism at the centre of this study in a way that contextualises their existence within the common terrain of global neoliberal capitalism, this study reveals how cross-colonisation entrenches settler colonial processes deeply into said terrain. To do this, I first establish how both India and Israel discretely entrench their respective settler colonisations of Palestine and Kashmir into the flows of world capitalism. I then outline the dynamics that draw the two cases into contact with one another. I use this as a base to analyse the political economy of Indian-Israeli cross colonial interconnections in Kashmir and Palestine – an economic relationship that is reinforced by the economic interests of other global and regional powers in the continued colonisation of Palestine and Kashmir. After this, I analyse the role of universalist vocabularies and narrative assemblages in embedding the economic cross-colonial linkages into global political flows, focusing on those of the nation-state system, the global War on Terror, and capitalist rationalism.


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