Dear God. “Netanyahu’s New Ministers Have Very Strict Ideas About Who Is a Jew *** Several ministries have been created w/ a focus on Jewish identity.” They will be led by extremists whose “definition of Judaism” excludes “non-Orthodox streams, w/ which the majority of American Jews identify.” 1/ nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opi…
2/ “They are even demanding a change in the most fundamental link between Israel and the Jewish diaspora: the Law of Return, which grants Israeli citizenship to Jews and their descendants.” nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opi…
3/ “Jews are told that each Jew holds responsibility for Jews everywhere, that we must act for our brethren in peril. But with these new laws redefining who belongs, that religionwide sense of comity would cease to exist.”
4/ “Mr. Netanyahu is secular,” but “half of his new coalition members are fundamentalist, & he needed their support to return to office & possibly to … help him avoid consequences from his ongoing trial for fraud and bribery.” Sound familiar?!!!! #ChristianNationalism
5/ Yoram Hazony is a former Netanyahu advisor. He is a far right Jewish extremist who has formed an alliance with far right Christian extremists in the US and Europe. The alliance is called “NatCon.”
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9/ Netanyahu’s coalition has made recent moves to “narrow the definition of who counts as a Jew (ruling out anyone not recognised as such by Israel’s Orthodox rabbinical establishment), with new agencies such as the Directorate of Jewish Identity charged with carrying out this mission.” newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…
10/ Peter Thiel is a big fan of Yoram Hazony & NatCon
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13/ “Peter Thiel … helped fund NatCon” vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/i…
14/ David Goldman is a Claremont Institute fellow.
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17/ Netanyahu & the far right nutters in his coalition apparently backed off on narrowing Israel’s Law of Return (for now) due to public outcry both within and outside Israel. mosaicmagazine.com/essay/israel-z…
18/ “Hazony had a proposal for where to begin: with an avowal that America is a Christian nation with a Christian majority, where Christians should get to dictate the country’s laws and social norms. There could be ‘carve-outs’ for minorities, he said, but no pretense of a neutral public square” by Kathryn Joyce, 1/6/22 newrepublic.com/article/164441…
19/ NatCons are NOT fans of individual rights btw - think religious fundamentalism
20/ Three top NatCon thought leaders are Yoram Hazony, RR Reno, and Patrick Deneen
21/ More about Netanyahu’s far right allies in Israel. nytimes.com/2022/12/30/opi…
22/ “There are currently about 3,000 curriculums written by progressive, radical-left nongovernmental organizations ….,” Netanayu’s ally said.
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24/ Article from 2022 btw. 👇
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26/ Seeing as the Christian NatCons are following Hazony’s lead, these nutters would likely support a “Christian only” right of return policy for the US w/ a possible “carve out” for whoever qualifies as Jewish under a very narrow definition. Narrow definition of “Christian” too.
27/ Related thread.
28/ This exchange seems important. Hazony thinks Jews (his definition, of course) should live in Israel. No wonder he is willing to advocate Christian extremist control in the US. He WANTS American Jews to move to Israel. @AlanMairson towers.substack.com/p/what-if-john…
@AlanMairson 29/ Diaspora Jews didn’t agree with Yoram Hazony that they should live in Israel. Helping far right Christian Nationalists take control of the US and Europe is a hell of a way to persuade them. 😳👇@AlanMairson
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