We have gathered together a slate of what Moment Magazine calls “a who’s who of American Progressive Zionism” to participate in the World Zionist Congress elections, in order to influence policies and budgeting priorities. The Hatikvah Progressive Israel Slate has generated more interest in what is often called “the Jewish people’s parliament” than has been seen in recent elections.
And what is the outrageous reaction by those on the right who don’t agree with our progressive Zionist world view?
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro hysterically claimed that we “have mobilized to direct funding toward causes that run directly counter to the interests of the organization, including support of BDS.”
Betheny Mandel wrote in the Washington Examiner that “the American Jewish Left is using this World Zionist Congress election to try to turn the financial support of the Jewish people against Israel, and they’re not even trying to hide it.”
Yehudah Glick, a Likud member of Knesset, tweeted that supporting Hatikvah is a vote to “strengthen the Iranian aspiration to destroy Israel.”
This is what we up against and why we need your vote today. We need to send a message that rejects their ugly, disgusting, hateful diatribes and enables us to influence annual budgets of $1 billion.
As I am sure you know, we have our supporters in Israel as well; take a look at this short video from Labor Party MK Merav Michaeli.
