Scoop: U.S. Jewish leaders warn Israeli officials over incoming right-wing government.
— both of whom have expressed racist and Jewish supremacist views — and Avi Maoz, who has expressed anti-LGBTQ views, sources who attended the meeting said.Participants of the meeting told Axios several of the Jewish representatives said that policies that are racist, antagonistic towards both reform and conservative Jews and harm LGBTQ+ rights could damage donations to Israel from the U.S. Jewish community.
The overall message of the meeting was that the new Israeli government’s expected policies could make the work of the U.S. Jewish organizations to garner support for Israel much harder, according to several of the participants of the meeting. When Davidovich went back to Israel, she briefed senior foreign ministry officials about the meeting and said she was very concerned, a senior foreign ministry official told me.The new Israeli government, with Netanyahu as its prime minister, is expected to be sworn in on Thursday.
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