The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook https://jewishcurrents.org/the-hindu-nationalists-using-the-pro-israel-playbook
To counter what they view as a rising tide of prejudice, the HAF and other Hindu American groups , ... Indian Americans have mode led their congressional activism on that of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and AIPAC; Indian lobbyists have partnered with these groups to achieve shared defense goals, including arms deals between India and Israel and a landmark nuclear agreement between India and the US. Along the way, these Jewish groups have trained a generation of Hindu lob byists and advocates, offering strategies at joint summits and providing a steady stream of informal advice. “We shared with them the Jewish approach to political activism,” Ann Schaffer, an AJC leader, told the Forward in 2002. “We want to give them the tools to further their political agenda.” Shukla told Jewish Currents that the HAF continues to work closely with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the AJC, whether by “being co-amici curiae on briefs to the US Supreme Court,” or by “lending our support to one another’s letters to Congress.”
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hindu American activists also founded a new cohort of organizations focused less on “matters in the ‘homeland’” than on “the terrain of Indian-American life,”( The protean forms of Yankee Hindutva by Biju Mathew & Vijay Prashad https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014198700328971?journalCode=rers20