Auditing the Hindu American Foundation’s Claims of “Hinduphobia”
”According to the more than a dozen scholars, experts, and activists Jewish Currents spoke to for this story, HAF has political incentives to describe as many incidents as anti-Hindu as possible. For decades, the positions of the group’s founders have been aligned [politicalresearch.org] with Hindu The belief in the primacy of “the nation” as the most important political allegiance, that every nation should have its own state, and that it is the primary responsibility of the state and its leaders to preserve the nation. Learn more . As such, HAF has consistently supported supremacist policies of Narendra Modi’s government in India, eventually earning a place on the Congressional Research Service’s list of Hindu nationalist groups operating in the United States in 2024. Pratik Sinha, co-founder and editor of the Indian fact-checking platform Alt News, told Jewish Currents that “the whole Hindu nationalist project is one of misrepresentation and misinformation,” and that groups like HAF create a narrative of Hindu victimhood in order to advance their politics.”