India one of the greatest supporters of Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called India one of the greatest supporters of Israel, as he pushed back against JD Vance’s recent comments that the country has no “powerful ally” other than the United States.

In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu said Israel has “tremendous support” in India.

“We have some other friends, like a small country called India. It has 1.4 billion people, and boy, do we have a tremendous support there,” the Israeli leader, who has received significant backlash from around the world over the wars his country has been engaged in with Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon.

Netanyahu further said that he respected US Vice President JD Vance, and called President Donald Trump the “greatest friend” Israel has ever had in the White House.

“But it doesn’t mean that I agree with everything that he (Vance) says and I have to point out this,” he said.

Netanyahu’s remarks come weeks after Vance warned Israel not to mess with its “only powerful ally”.

The Israeli Prime Minister further claimed that he is “flooded by the overwhelming support” from India on social media platform Facebook, and asserted that his country has many other allies.

Without naming anyone, he went on to say that in many countries, it is “fashionable” on social media to have “anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic material”.(courtsy NDTV)(UPDATED ON 5TH JULY 2026)