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There is some big stuff going on in the realm of Israel/Diaspora relations and the & #39;national institutions& #39; that form one of the oldest political and programmatic interfaces between the two. In particular, the prospect of an ultra-orthodox/right wing takeover of key bodies 1/8 https://twitter.com/Gil_Hoffman/status/1317788015012478978">https://twitter.com/Gil_Hoffm...
It& #39;s important regardless of how you ultimately feel about whether these institutions should exist, because there is serious and significant power and resource held within them + the chance of it being put to use entrenching occupation + defunding non orthodox streams is real 2/8
The kingmakers in this are potentially the international organisations of @Hadassah @WIZOuk @BnaiBrith @NAAMATUSA and @maccabigb who normally stay out of voting on the coalition agreements. But this is not the time to stay out, because abstention is consent. 3/8
What would it mean consenting to? There& #39;s a good summary here https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-right-wing-groups-accused-of-plotting-hostile-takeover-of-key-zionist-institutions-1.9244120">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-ne... but it means KKL goes to Likud and Mizrahi, the WZO diaspora dept. to someone who calls leftists traitors and Palestinians a & #39;more dangerous virus than COVID& #39; 4/8
These parties have consistently run on anti-reform and conservative (masorti) and anti-progressive platforms, and if there were already concerns about the flow of KKL/WZO money over the green line with the centre/left in charge then imagine what is to come. 5/8
The clincher here, is that this shouldn& #39;t be democratically possible, because although politically these groups are the largest faction, they& #39;re a minority in the WZO if you add the centre-left groups together with those who usually stay out of coalition politics. 6/8
Which is why this is not the year to abstain, and allow the whole apparatus to be taken over by those who hate diversity, don& #39;t value pluralism, and seek to systematically eradicate the voice of the majority of Jews around the world who are not hard right/ultra orthodox 7/8
