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The unofficial Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.
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Israel has true PR and look what they’ve done with that: a coalition of small, far-right parties and one moderately large one.
Well of course a democratic Israel is going to be fascist, that's the will of the people. Israel is full of Europeans who decided to go colonise the middle east and live in stolen homes for religious reasons. It's high purity distilled fascism. Expecting Israel to turn out lefty is like brewing moonshine in a toilet and expecting sparkling vitamin water to come out.
Only about 27% of Israeli Jews have recent European parentage (as of 2015) and that dropped from 30% in 2008 (and dropped by about 14,000 people in absolute terms). I think if anything this shows that European Jews are either leaving Israel or otherwise not reproducing nearly as quickly as long-ancestry Israeli Jews (which grew from 37% to 44% in the same time span, an increase of 700,000 people).
Source: Wikipedia.
Furthermore, in terms of political support in Israel, the left-right split falls down largely ethnic lines:
Source: Oxford University Press.
So it’s pretty much exactly the opposite of your claim. The people supporting far right governments and the expansion of settlements in Israel are ethnically middle eastern Israelis or Russian-descended Jews, not European Jews or their descendants, many of whom are leaving the country or protesting against the government from within Israel.