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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)