[Marxistindia] Condemn the Visit of Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister

[news from the cpi(m)]

September 9, 2025

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Condemn the Visit of Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns the visit of Israeli Finance
Minister, Bezalel Smotrich to India. He led an Israeli delegation to sign a
bilateral investment agreement with the Indian government.

 

Smotrich belongs to a far right racist party who is the leading advocate in
the Netanyahu government for occupying the Gaza strip by forcibly displacing
the Palestinian people. He is also a prime mover of proposals to annex the
occupied West Bank to Israel. 

 

As a result of his expansionist policies involving the ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians, several countries have banned his entry and some of them have
also imposed other sanctions. Among these countries are the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia, Norway, Netherlands, Slovenia and New Zealand. 

 

It is shameful that the Modi government has hosted such a person and signed
agreements with the Israeli government at a time when the people of Gaza are
being massacred every day. This episode highlights the deep and entrenched
ties that the Modi government has forged with the Netanyahu government, and
its complicity in the ongoing horrific genocide in Gaza.

 

The Polit Bureau demands that the Indian government rescind all military,
security and economic collaboration with Israel, till Israel agrees to an
immediate ceasefire and work towards a just and peaceful settlement of the
Palestinian question. 

 

 

Muralidharan

(For CPI(M) Central Committee Office)

 

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