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| − | [[Hashomer Hatzair UK]] | [[Hanoar Hatzioni UK]] | [[Ezra UK]] | [[Bnei Akiva UK]] | [[Maccabi GB]] | [[Betar UK]] | [[Habonim Dror UK]] | + | [[Hashomer Hatzair UK]] | [[Hanoar Hatzioni UK]] | [[Ezra UK]] | [[Bnei Akiva UK]] (Religious Zionists, affiliated with [[Mizrachi UK]], the [[British Emunah Fund]] and the [[Zionist Youth Council (UK)]]<ref>Bnei Akiva [https://www.bauk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BAUK-Constitution-updated-5781.pdf Standing Orders: The constitution of Bnei Akiva]</ref> | [[Maccabi GB]] | [[Betar UK]] | [[Habonim Dror UK]] |
===Young Adults movements=== | ===Young Adults movements=== | ||
Revision as of 13:43, 16 November 2021
UK movement
- Zionist Federation | Jewish National Fund UK | United Jewish Israel Appeal | Jewish Agency for Israel - UK office
Membership of the Zionist Federation
Academic Friends of Israel | AJEX | Alyth | BBYO UK | Bromley Reform Synagogue | Christian Friends of Israel | Cockfosters and N Southgate Synagogue | Edgeware and District Reform Synagogue | European Friends of Israel | Emunah | Federation of Zionist Youth | Habonim Dror UK | Mosaic | Jewish Labour Movement | JLGB | Kenton Jewish Community | Kinloss | Likud-Herut UK | LJY Netzer | Manchester ZCC | Masorti Judaism | Mercaz | Meretz UK | Merseyside Jewish Representative Council | Mosaic Reform Synagogue | Reform Judaism | Noam Masorti Youth | North West Surrey Synagogue | Nottingham Liberal Synagogue | Progressive Religious Zionists | British Friends of Rambam Medical Center | The Zionist Youth Movement for Reform Judaism/RSY-Netzer | Share Tsedek | Share Zedek | South Hampstead Synagogue | WIZO UK | Woodside Park Synagogue[1]
Companies and groups that are part of JNF UK
KKL Charity Accounts | KKL Executor and Trustee Company Ltd | JNF Charitable Trust
Other formal members of affiliates of the WZO
Youth movements
Hashomer Hatzair UK | Hanoar Hatzioni UK | Ezra UK | Bnei Akiva UK (Religious Zionists, affiliated with Mizrachi UK, the British Emunah Fund and the Zionist Youth Council (UK)[2] | Maccabi GB | Betar UK | Habonim Dror UK
Young Adults movements
Affiliated Zionist Organisations
Union of Jewish Students/B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation | Hadassah UK | B'nai B'rith UK | British Emunah Fund | Masorti Judaism | (Members of the World Union for Progressive Judaism: Reform Judaism UK | Liberal Judaism)
UK affiliates of World Unions
Mercaz UK | Arzenu UK | Herut UK - affiliated with World Herut | Meretz UK | | Mizrachi UK | Hanoar Hatzioni UK | Over the Rainbow UK
The UK representation at the World Zionist Congress, which decides policy for the World Zionist Organisation, is via 'an allocation of only 19 seats out of 525.' [3]
- Plans to hold an online public election to choose the UK representation this year had to be abandoned because of the pandemic. Instead, the Zionist groups agreed to allocate seats among themselves, based on assessments of their support within the community. The controversy began when Likud-Herut UK – now calling itself Likud UK – which had not been involved in the previous Congress, wanted to run this time. To complicate matters, there is an alternative group called Herut UK. As a new slate, Likud UK had to muster 500 signatures from the community to indicate it had sufficient support. But although the chairman of the UK’s area election committee Rabbi Lea Muhlstein initially accepted the Likud list, others committee members challenged its validity. The dispute then went to a tribunal set up by the Zionist Federation adjudicated by Jonathan Goldberg QC and barrister Gary Grant. In June, they ruled in favour of Likud UK’s eligibility. In their decision, they stated, "At an earlier stage it appeared to us that allegations of bad faith were possibly being bandied about somewhat carelessly on both sides. "Happily on closer examination we ourselves detected no such element in the case whatever. We emphasise that we have seen no evidence whatever that either side, or the personalities involved, behaved with anything other than complete propriety and good faith in endeavouring to do their best in difficult conditions, not least brought about by the current pandemic." Rabbi Muhlstein had conducted herself in “exemplary fashion”, they said.
- According to the minutes of an area election committee in March, Likud UK had been willing to accept one of the 19 seats. But it subsequently increased its demand at one point to three seats. Rabbi Muhlstein resigned as chair of the committee, saying she no longer had time given her responsibilities as a congregational rabbi and as chairman of Artenu, the international Progressive Zionist movement.
- Finally, last month the Zionist parties reached a deal that gave Likud UK two seats. Zalmi Unsdorfer, Likud UK chairman, said, “The one seat proposal was mooted by World Likud's chairman at an earlier stage but without our prior knowledge or agreement here in the UK. “They later suggested two seats which, at the eleventh hour, we accepted to break the deadlock which would have rendered the whole ZFUK slate out of time.” He said the group would revert to the Likud Herut UK brand “immediately after the congress. It has been, and always will be ours.” [3]
The final division of the 19 seats was agreed as follows: 'Mizrachi and Pro-Zion will each have four seats: Mercaz UK, Likud UK, FZY (representing the Confederation of Zionists) two each: and the Jewish Labour Movement, Herut UK, Over the Rainbow, Meretz and Hanoar Hatzioni one apiece.'[3]
The main factions of UK Zionism have various connections to both global umbrella bodies and in some cases to othe groupings within the formal; Zionist movement as follows:
- Mizrachi UK, affiliate of World Mizrachi, a movement of religious Zionists founded in the early years of the Twentieth Century in Vilnius, Lithuania. Strongly associated with modern orthodox Judaism as represented in the UK by the United Synagogue. According to a briefing note by Keith Kahn-Harris 'Modern Orthodox' Judaism encompasses some 52% of British Jews.
- Pro-Zion, (now renamed Arzenu UK, part of Arzenu), represents Liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism, both of which are part of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
- Mercaz UK, affiliate of Mercaz which refers to itself as 'the Zionist arm of the worldwide Masorti movement' of Conservative Judaism. Obviously the worldwide Masorti movement is also 'Zionist' too, being a direct member of the WZO.
- Likud UK, affiliate of World Likud
- FZY (representing the Confederation of Zionists)
- Jewish Labour Movement, affiliate of the World Labour Zionist Movement
- Herut UK, affiliate of World Herut
- Over the Rainbow UK, Led in the UK by Jeremy Newmark, affiliate of the new faction Over the Rainbow
- Meretz UK, affiliate of the World Union of Meretz
- Hanoar Hatzioni UK, a youth group, affiliate of Hanoar Hatzioni
Self described Zionist groups that are not formally part of the Zionist Movement
pro-Israel groups which are not formal members of the Zionist Movement
Board of Deputies of British Jews | BICOM | Jewish Leadership Council | Labour Friends of Israel | Conservative Friends of Israel | We Believe In Israel
Notes
- ↑ Zionist Federation Affiliate Members. Accessed 15 June 2018.
- ↑ Bnei Akiva Standing Orders: The constitution of Bnei Akiva
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Simon Rocker UK Zionist groups agree on congress delegation after heavy wrangling 5 August 2020.
Pages in category "Zionist movement UK"
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