The latest U.S. election for delegates to the World Zionist Congress, the self-proclaimed “parliament of the Jewish people” and the body that controls billions in resources for the Zionist project, has ended with Orthodox and hardline right-wing factions tightening their grip.
These parties, aligned with Israel’s ruling coalition and its settler agenda, secured 81 of the 155 American seats, ensuring that the Congress remains a conduit for financing colonization and entrenching apartheid across Palestine.
These parties, aligned with Israel’s ruling coalition and its settler agenda, secured 81 of the 155 American seats, ensuring that the Congress remains a conduit for financing colonization and entrenching apartheid across Palestine.
The election, marred by widespread voter fraud and months of legal wrangling, still delivered the same result: a majority for the religious-nationalist bloc whose agenda mirrors that of the occupation regime.
Even the so-called “liberal” currents, such as the Reform movement, which won the largest single share at 33 seats, remain fundamentally committed to Zionism and its settler-colonial architecture.
Even the so-called “liberal” currents, such as the Reform movement, which won the largest single share at 33 seats, remain fundamentally committed to Zionism and its settler-colonial architecture.
The scale of the stakes is massive. Over the next five years, the Congress will decide the allocation of $5 billion to “Jewish and Israeli causes”, in reality, a war chest for the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, Keren Hayesod, and the Jewish National Fund.
The JNF, in particular, is central to land confiscation and demographic engineering, owning a significant percentage of land inside the 1948 territories and playing a direct role in settlement expansion.
The JNF, in particular, is central to land confiscation and demographic engineering, owning a significant percentage of land inside the 1948 territories and playing a direct role in settlement expansion.
The vote count revealed a surge in mobilization, with nearly 225,000 “valid” ballots, an 80% jump from 2020, a signal that the U.S.-based Zionist apparatus is mobilizing harder than ever to lock in its control over resource pipelines, institutional appointments, and policy direction.
This outcome all but guarantees that the religious right will maintain dominance in the Congress, building on its 2020 breakthrough when it overturned decades of center-left hegemony inside the body.
This outcome all but guarantees that the religious right will maintain dominance in the Congress, building on its 2020 breakthrough when it overturned decades of center-left hegemony inside the body.
Beneath the veneer of “democratic process” lies a record of electoral malpractice that was openly acknowledged yet scarcely punished.
Parties like Am Yisrael Chai and Eretz HaKodesh were caught engaging in bribery, improper payment schemes, and mass rule violations; Shas, the Orthodox Sephardic party, had half its votes deemed invalid for fraud.
Yet the Zionist Supreme Court and U.S. election tribunals shielded them from serious consequences, opting for fines and minor sanctions rather than disqualification, a calculated decision to preserve the bloc’s majority and prevent any fracture in the religious-nationalist front.
Parties like Am Yisrael Chai and Eretz HaKodesh were caught engaging in bribery, improper payment schemes, and mass rule violations; Shas, the Orthodox Sephardic party, had half its votes deemed invalid for fraud.
Yet the Zionist Supreme Court and U.S. election tribunals shielded them from serious consequences, opting for fines and minor sanctions rather than disqualification, a calculated decision to preserve the bloc’s majority and prevent any fracture in the religious-nationalist front.
This is not a sideshow. The World Zionist Congress is a central node in the machinery of dispossession, using its control over funds and appointments to steer settlement policy, enforce land theft, and entrench occupation.
The outcome of this U.S. vote ensures that the same ideological forces driving settlement expansion in the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza will continue to dominate the Zionist movement’s global infrastructure, financed and legitimized by its American base.
The outcome of this U.S. vote ensures that the same ideological forces driving settlement expansion in the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza will continue to dominate the Zionist movement’s global infrastructure, financed and legitimized by its American base.
The Zionist project is not confined to Tel Aviv or the settlements, it is a global lattice of political capture, financial pipelines, and ideological enforcement.
From the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem to the donor galas in New York, from parliamentary lobbying in Paris to settlement fundraising in Toronto, the diaspora network secures the occupation’s budget, shields it diplomatically, and launders its crimes through “community” institutions.
The billions controlled by this machine are the lifeblood of dispossession in Palestine. Without severing these arteries abroad, the war at home will always be fed from afar.
From the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem to the donor galas in New York, from parliamentary lobbying in Paris to settlement fundraising in Toronto, the diaspora network secures the occupation’s budget, shields it diplomatically, and launders its crimes through “community” institutions.
The billions controlled by this machine are the lifeblood of dispossession in Palestine. Without severing these arteries abroad, the war at home will always be fed from afar.
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