Former Netanyahu aide behind 'lost tribes' moving to Israel from India
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/17093-former-netanyahu-aide-behind-lost-tribes-moving-to-israel-from-india
A former Netanyahu aide is the key figure behind an unprecedented government decision to allow an indigenous people from north-eastern India to immigrate to Israel and convert upon arrival.
According to an investigation by Haaretz, nearly 1,000 members of the 'Bnei Menashe' community have arrived in Israel over the past two years. "Though little, if any, proof exists of their Jewish lineage", the paper writes, "the Israeli government voted in October 2012 to allow "a large group" to move to Israel, and, a year later, "voted to bring in an even larger group."
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In 2001, Freund argued in The Jerusalem Post that "the issue of demography might very well be the greatest threat to the future of Israel as a Jewish state." He went on:
As the percentage of Jews continues to decline, it will grow increasingly difficult for Israel, as a democracy, to ignore mounting calls by its Arab minority for cultural autonomy and perhaps even self-rule. And if the day were to come when Arab Israelis could elect more representatives to the Knesset than Jewish Israelis, the Jewish identity of the State would be in grave doubt.
Let me make this clear.
The Palestinians have a hard enough time as it is with day-to-day life in what has effectively been turned into a ghetto for them. Not only were many of them driven out of pre-Israel during the nakba, but they were not allowed to return to their homes and villages afterward: many of which had found new
inhabitants.
And now the irony meter is doing backflips where people that have
absolutely no claim whatsoever to the state of Israel are being given a front seat, ahead of any Palestinians that can prove where their grandparents lived in Israel before the Nakba, just as long as they convert.
The point being in all this is to hope that Israel will beat their declining demographic reality by inviting new people's to their side.
F'ed up.
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