It’s unimaginable but real: we are living in an age of genocide. It’s been three years since Israel, with its myriad of partners-in-crime, launched its genocidal campaign against Gaza. We are living through this horror, even from afar, as it is live streamed to our devices daily. It’s unfathomable how people are able to make it through each day, working, living, being as if the world is normal. As if even those of us living thousands of kilometers away are not affected by the devastation that we are witnessing. As if we are not in cahoots with it.As a Jewish American, I am well aware that I have been doubly complicit in this genocide from the start. The extermination is being done in my name and with my tax dollars. As a long-term resident and tax payer in India, this genocide is also being carried out in my name. But as the decimation of the Palestinian people has raged on year after year, and extended further into Palestine, beyond the borders of Gaza and of Palestine, it has become evident how many partners Israel has in their wanton ruination.While many people living in India may wince at the proclamations of affinity between prime ministers Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu, few are aware that there are multiple forces in our midst that are perpetuating this genocide. It’s not just the leaders we vilify.Three major reports detail the role of India in Israel’s genocideOver the last three years there have been three major reports that detail the role that India is playing in Israel’s genocide. In 2025, the Delhi-based Centre for Financial Accountability released Profit & Genocide: Indian Investments in Israel, which laid the groundwork for a broad-based understanding of the corporations and industries most heavily invested in Israel since the mid-2000s. These partnerships are dual use: they involve investment and sales between India and Israel; it’s not merely India purchasing weapons from Israel.India is also manufacturing weapons components for Israel and sending them on civilian airplanes – 52% are going from my city, Benglauru’s, airport to Israel. The most prominent of these collaborations is Adani Defence Systems and Technologies supporting the manufacture of weapons like drones for Israel’s Elbit Systems and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems. Public enterprises like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are working with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to create an aerial refueling tanker in India.It’s not only the military sector that these partnerships are fueling. A wide array of Indian public and private organisations have been collaborating on water with Israel’s state-run water supply company, Mekorot. For decades, Mekorot has operationalised a practice of stealing water from Palestinian aquifers in the West Bank for its settlers; meanwhile Palestinians trying to access that water for daily use – from drinking water to bathing – is cordoned off.Last year, the Israeli army deactivated the Mekorot pipeline which had previously supplied 70% of Gaza City’s potable water. Mekorot and the Israeli army work in tandem with each other ensuring that the least amount of water is available to Palestinian people whether through bombing campaigns that target those pipelines and refusing to repair them. This is the organisation that has been cultivating partnerships with the governments of Mumbai and Punjab and a variety of smaller enterprises across the country.A much more focused analysis of Indian collaboration with apartheid and genocide was produced by the Desi New York-based organisation SALAM last year. This report, Architects of Occupation: The Tata Group, Indian Capital, and the India-Israel Alliance, delves deeply into the Tata Group’s complicity into various aspects of Israel’s apartheid regime from multiple subdivisions of this multinational corporation. Subsidiaries including Tata Advanced Systems, Tata Motors, and Tata Consultancy Services have all participated in Israel’s genocide by providing parts for military vehicles like F-16 fighter jets to Apache attack helicopters to furnishing Israel’s military with the digital infrastructure to surveil the Palestinian people.The SALAM report is a critical guide for people who want to trace the ways in which Tata and other large Indian capital is being used to support Israel’s genocide in Palestine, and now in Lebanon. It delineates how those forces work in conjunction with the state as well:“This corporate complicity is both deep and multifaceted. At the most direct level, conglomerates like the Adani Group and the Kalyani Group have established joint ventures to co-produce the very hardware of Israeli violence, manufacturing everything from Hermes 900 drones and Spike guided missiles to the standard-issue Tavor assault rifles used by the Israeli military. This is complemented by firms like Wipro, which produces critical aerostructure components for the F-35 fighter jets that bombard Gaza. Beyond direct arms production, Indian capital controls strategic infrastructure, exemplified by the Adani Group’s acquisition of Haifa Port, Israel’s largest shipping terminal and a key logistical hub. In the digital realm, IT giants like Infosys and Mahindra partner directly with the Israeli state and its military firms to develop and export surveillance and cybersecurity solutions, effectively monetising the technologies of occupation.This corporate nexus is fully backed by the Indian state, whose publicly-owned enterprises are key players. For example, Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) is a primary vehicle for massive state-to-state missile contracts, the State Bank of India (SBI) provides the financial infrastructure for these operations, and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) invests public funds in Israeli firms that are direct suppliers to the Israeli military. Even seemingly benign sectors are deeply implicated, with companies such as Sun Pharmaceutical profiting from the captive Palestinian market created by the occupation, and Jain Irrigation providing services to illegal settlements.” Together, this nexus of Indian corporations are collaborating with the state, and sometimes with American enterprises, to finance, profit, and participate in the slaughter of Palestinian people. It goes without saying that these weapons are also then turned against Indians when conflicts heat up in places like Kashmir.As Italian scholar Silvia Federici reminds us, “ Today the people of Palestine are being martyred, but we delude ourselves if we think that the destruction of their communities and their expulsion from their lands will have no consequences for our lives. Palestine is the world, and the blood it sheds – caused by the weapons and financial aid provided by the United States – will fall on us as well.”Ties between Indian and Israeli military projectsAmnesty International’s report last year, Made in India: The Supply of Weapons and Ammunition to Israel is the most recent of these reports to make clear how much of an integral player India is in Israel’s genocide. As with the previous reports, Amnesty examines the ties between Indian and Israeli military projects at both the state and corporate level. It delves into the nuts and bolts of India’s participation by highlighting the various components produced in India that are then sent to Israel to facilitate the manufacturing of its weapons. Over 2,500 such shipments were sent to Israel during this current and ongoing genocide.But most importantly, Amnesty’s findings pivot on its emphasis that India has an obligation to halt these collaborations because it is a party to the Genocide Convention, it is illegal to transfer arms to a state they know is committing war crimes and genocide:“As a state party to the Genocide Convention, India is obliged to employ all means reasonably available to prevent genocide. This obligation arose at the instant when India learned, at the latest by January 2024 through the ICJ’s provisional measures order in South Africa v. Israel, of the serious risk that genocide could be committed in Gaza. Any subsequent transfer of weapons to Israel has thus violated India’s obligation to prevent genocide and fulfil its responsibilities under international law and standards.”Amnesty provides a comprehensive list of recommendations to the Indian state, and the companies operating within its borders, to cease participating in genocide. Most important on that list is to start an arms embargo against Israel. It’s the least we could do to remedy our role in creating this ongoing catastrophe.India may not be as much as a partner in crime with Israel as the United States or European Union, but we are steadily working in that direction. Every one of us who lives within its borders is a party to this genocide given the way the tentacles of the corporates and government spread into almost every facet of our lives. If you stop for a moment to consider how much the normalisation of Israeli-Indian relations have taken hold in this country you’ll see how much work there is for us to undo – from expelling Israeli soldiers who feel free enough to tour this country after committing genocide to Israeli companies laying roots in our midst. These reports have been painstakingly researched and provide us with the tools we need to relinquish our role in this catastrophe.We need to ask ourselves what kind of society do we want to be? One that turns a blind eye to the machinations of genocide that we help support through the ways we go about our daily lives or one that stands up for and prioritises the lives of Palestinian people and people across the global south? Or one that recognises that our humanity demands we stand up against genocide and erasure?Marcy Newman is author of ‘The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans’ (2011). She is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, the International Jewish Antizionist Network, and a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.