The 1918 Battle of Haifa, in which Indian cavalry units defeated Ottoman forces to help secure the Palestinian port city during the First World War, has re-emerged as a flashpoint over how colonial-era military history should be remembered. The charge by the Jodhpur, Mysore, and Hyderabad Lancers is celebrated in India as proof of its soldiers' global reach and valour — a narrative reinforced by the renaming of a New Delhi roundabout as Teen Murti Haifa Chowk — and is invoked by Israel as a symbol of friendship with India. But Palestinian officials argue the victory helped consolidate British rule over Palestine and enabled policies that eventually led to mass Palestinian displacement, with the Palestinian Ambassador to India describing the Indian soldiers not as heroes but as victims of colonial exploitation whose sacrifice is now being used to legitimise an Israeli historical narrative.