IN-DEPTH: India’s Ban on Pro-Palestinian Protests an ‘Uncompromising’ Counter-Terrorism Stance, Expert Says

NEW DELHI—A war of stances and narratives has broken out in the global media after India’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests. Some reports say the ban represents a foreign policy shift in an attempt to protect India’s relationship with Israel, one of its largest defense partners. These reports are countered by others, primarily in the Indian media, who say the protests have been banned to maintain law and order. A report in the Associated Press focused on the situation in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where Indian authorities have barred Palestinian solidarity marches and asked Muslim preachers to refrain from mentioning the conflict in their sermons. The report said India has barred solidarity marches because it fears the protests will jeopardize its rule in what the AP termed a “disputed region.” India has legally claimed Kashmir as its own since the partition of colonial India into India and Pakistan....