American Hindus Against Defamation

AHAD Announces Groundbreaking Use of AI to detect Hindu Hate and Hinduphobia

Bias and Sentiment Analysis of Hindu News of the Day

AHAD AI News Analysis: [News18] Opinion: The South Asia Virus Strikes Again
Date 2025-04-30	Sentiment India 🟡 Hindu 🟡 Hindutva 🟡	Bias Rating Language 🟡 Source 🟡 Repersentation 🟡 Mischaracterization 🟡	Details Full Analysis
AHAD AI News Analysis: [ZNetwork] Kashmir and the Indus River
Date 2025-04-30	Sentiment India 🟥 Hindu 🟥 Hindutva 🟥	Bias Rating Language 🟥 Source 🟥 Repersentation 🟥 Mischaracterization 🟥	Details Full Analysis
AHAD AI News Analysis: [The Telegraph] Yogi temple drive amid ‘pilgrimage site’ call in Sambhal, new flashpoint of Hindutva politics
Date 2025-04-27	Sentiment India 🟧 Hindu 🟧 Hindutva 🟥	Bias Rating Language 🟥 Source 🟧 Repersentation 🟥 Mischaracterization 🟧	Details Full Analysis

AHAD Actions

December 16, 2024

AHAD sent the following letter to the CEO of Walmart demanding that the offending products be removed from Walmart online immediately. The products were eventually removed. Doug McMillon President and CEO Walmart Inc. 702 S.W. 8th St. Bentonville, AR 72716 Dear Mr. McMillon, We, American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD), write to express our most profound disappointment and outrage […]

AHAD Action: Products with Inappropriate Ganesha Images

July 30, 2023

ACT: Sign AHAD & HinduPACT Petition – Remove Gita Shloka from the Movie “Oppenheimer”

AHAD – Founded in 1997, AHAD was the first formal Hindu movement against defamation worldwide. AHAD works to overcome Hindu Hate and preserve the Sanctity of Hindu Symbols, Icons, Culture, and Customs. AHAD is an Initiative of the World Hindu Council of America (VHPA), and it is now part of HinduPACT

Hindu Hater of the Week

Blogs and Responses

March 20, 2026

AHAD/ HinduPACT Report : Deconstructing the 2026 TNI Report

March 20, 2026

March 18, 2026

Press Release: USCIRF 2007-2026 Study

March 18, 2026

USCIRF Reporting on India (2007–2026) A Longitudinal Analysis of Narrative Frames and Hindu Organization Mentions

March 18, 2026

Press Releases

March 18, 2026

First-of-Its-Kind Longitudinal Study of Two Decades of USCIRF Reports March 18, 2026, Washington, DC, HinduPACT today announced the release of a new research report, USCIRF Reporting on India (2007–2026): A Longitudinal Analysis of Narrative Frames and Hindu Organization Mentions, which examines two decades of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reporting on India and […]

Press Release: USCIRF 2007-2026 Study

February 2, 2026

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The “RSS Lobbying” Panic Is Theater: The Paperwork, And The Network, Tell A Different Story

February 2, 2026

Analysis shows the 2025 Hill outreach complied with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), contrasts it with true FARA cases, and maps the U.S.-based network driving anti-RSS storylines. Washington, D.C. — February 2, 2026 — A new investigative report, The “RSS Lobbying” Panic Is Theater: The Paperwork—and the Network—Tell a Different Story, concludes that a short-lived […]

Press Release: New report finds “RSS lobbying” narrative mis-framed; filings were routine, legal, and transparent

September 2, 2025

Washington, D.C., [September 2, 2025] HinduPACT’s American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD) today issued a decisive call for the President of the United States to dismiss Peter Navarro from his position as Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, following his deeply inappropriate and Hinduphobic reference to caste and his portrayal of India’s Prime Minister […]

Press Release: AHAD Demands Immediate Dismissal of Peter Navarro for Promoting Hindu Hate

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Anti-Asian Hate

AHAD Presentations

AHAD Presentation 2017

August 23, 2024

Ajay Shah presented this presentation in 2017. It gives a brief overview of AHAD and why it is important to call out the denigration of Hindu deities, symbols, and icons.