The ideological polarization and societal fractures evident today cannot be understood without examining the international deep state.
If they cannot control you, they will hate you.
— Kautilya
The concept of a deep state—a clandestine group wielding power and influence without accountability to further its agenda—is traditionally associated with national governments. However, recent trends reveal a global manifestation of this phenomenon, with influential individuals and entities destabilizing democratically elected governments through collusion with media houses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), charities, and sometimes even state actors. This international deep state operates beyond traditional state boundaries, and its implications for global stability demand urgent scrutiny.
The ideological polarization and societal fractures evident today cannot be understood without examining this international deep state. From the relentless spread of wokeism, employing Marxist-style tactics to enforce conformity, to the normalization of radical Islamist ideologies, one must question the coordination and synchronicity behind these phenomena. A closer look reveals figures like George Soros using their wealth and influence to manipulate policies and disrupt social harmony for ideological and financial gains.
PROMOTING RADICAL ISLAM
Soros’ extensive funding of organizations under the pretext of promoting global causes such as refugee rights, gender equality, and combating Islamophobia has often resulted in unintended—or perhaps intentional—support for entities with questionable objectives. For instance, the French NGO Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), founded in 2003, has reportedly propagated Islamist propaganda and extremist ideologies. The organization was linked to the beheading of Samuel Paty, a French teacher, in October 2020. Leadership within CCIF is reported to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and Soros’ Open Society Foundation has provided nearly 1 million US dollars to CCIF to “combat Islamophobia.”
Another example is the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), whose co-founder and several members have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. Soros’ foundation funnelled over 1 million US dollars to ENAR. Similarly, the German-based INSAAN organization, led by Ibrahim El-Zayat—a figure identified by German authorities as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood—received funds from Soros in 2015. These cases highlight a pattern where funding ostensibly aimed at combating discrimination and promoting inclusion ends up supporting groups with radical agendas.
FUNCTIONARIES OF HAMAS
The Palestinian cause has become a focal point for this network of influence, particularly in portraying Hamas—a recognized terrorist organization—as a legitimate representative of Palestinian interests. The atrocities committed by Hamas, including the October 7 attacks and the taking of hostages, are often downplayed or ignored in favour of a narrative that paints Israel as an aggressor. This selective outrage disregards Hamas’ two-decade rule in Gaza, marked by violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, including the suppression of women’s rights and personal liberties.
Universities worldwide have become hotbeds of pro-Palestinian protests, many of which are reportedly funded and supported by Islamist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. Hamas, an ideological offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, exemplifies the dangers of allowing such narratives to dominate unchallenged. To put it in context, Soros has been linked to funding the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US-based NGO with alleged ties to Hamas. Another organization, Al Haq, headed by Shawan Jabarin—a known recruiter for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—has received nearly $2 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Al Haq and Al Mezan, other recipients of Soros’ funds, have both been implicated in supporting Hamas’s activities in the West Bank and Gaza.
VIRTUE SIGNALLING
The international deep state’s modus operandi often involves cloaking itself in the rhetoric of noble causes such as democracy, human rights, and free speech. This virtue signalling deflects criticism and masks the underlying agendas of the organizations and individuals involved. India, in particular, has been a target of this network. For instance, The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has links to the Muslim Brotherhood, received funds from Soros. ISNA’s Canadian branch has reportedly funnelled funds to Relief Organizations of Kashmiri Muslims, an NGO tied to Pakistan-based Jamaat-e-Islami.
Soros’ interventions in India’s democratic processes, including his open criticism of the country’s leadership, should serve as a wake-up call. Such actions reveal the extent to which these shadow organizations and agenda-driven megalomaniacs are willing to influence and destabilize nations. Moreover, there is an ongoing effort to propagate negative narratives about elections in the Global South, often under the guise of “saving democracy.” Institutions like V-Dem have been readily criticized for their role in framing these malicious narratives, frequently portraying thriving democracies in a poor light while ignoring significant challenges in the Global North. These selective criticisms undermine trust in democratic processes and align with broader agendas that aim to control and manipulate political outcomes.
DOUBLESPEAK
While claiming to be forces of democracy, liberal and celebration of diversity, these forces are doing just the opposite, using radical Islamic forces and terrorists to destabilize whom they do not like with forces of uniformity, fascism and extremism bordering on terrorism are supported. Apart from this Soros funds via his intermediary NGOs to Kashmiri separatists and other urban Naxals of India who work to protect radical Islamists in India.
Why this hatred against a pluralist Bharatiya civilization state? Is it because they have failed and hence want to destabilize the region, especially of those who think differently? Has the end of the Cold War changed the tactics of the Wokes who still have the façade of Left and Liberal, both of which are strange bedfellows with radical Islam? But today they are really funding the radical Islamists to destabilize regimes in Asia. Europe, especially Western Europe is in a crisis after the wave of immigration. Even moderate Muslim regimes are toppled like Bangladesh and Syria.
Is George Soros the new face of neocolonialism and neoimperialism—control a state by destroying it from within? Earlier the Muslim invaders physically tried to destroy the symbols of Bharatiya civilization state with force, mass murders, conversion, rape and loot. The British were more sophisticated—it was by destroying the existing knowledge systems by demeaning and destroying them, they hit at history, culture and education which was carried by the independent post-colonial state where the Left Congress carried it to its logical conclusion. The paradigm shift takes place politically in Bharat in 2014 but we still have been unable to construct an architecture of narrative power. George Orwell warned that those “who controls the past control the future, who controls the present control the past” To control our past, present and future it is necessary to construct our narratives of the Bharatiya Dharmic civilization state.
Prof Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit is the Vice Chancellor of JNU.