Activist Claims Family Shifted Votes to Right Ahead of Election
Translated & summarized from Ice by baba
Right-wing activist Mordechai David claims his family has dramatically shifted their voting patterns to support right-wing parties in the upcoming Knesset elections. He stated his mother, father, grandfather, and grandmother, who previously voted for left-wing and Arab parties, will now vote for Likud, Ben-Gvir, or Smotrich. David also claimed his sister switched her vote to Ben-Gvir after he confronted her about intending to vote for Ra'am. David recently joined Itamar Ben-Gvir's campaign, a move that drew criticism due to his past controversial actions.
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- Activist Mordechai David claims his family is shifting votes to right-wing parties ahead of the election.
- David stated his mother and father, lifelong left-wing voters, will now vote for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.
- He also claimed his sister changed her vote to Ben-Gvir after he threatened to stop speaking to her.
- David recently joined Itamar Ben-Gvir's campaign, facing criticism for past altercations.
- Ben-Gvir has expressed confidence in David's potential to become a future minister.
Two days before Israel's 26th Knesset elections, right-wing activist Mordechai David, who recently joined the youth wing of Otzma Yehudit, posted on X about a dramatic shift in his family's voting habits. David claims that most of his relatives, who previously voted for left-wing and Arab parties, have decided to support right-wing parties this election. He stated his mother, a lifelong Meretz voter, would vote for Ben-Gvir, and his father, a lifelong Labor voter, would vote for Smotrich. David also asserted his grandfather, who always voted for Balad, would now vote Likud, and his grandmother, who voted for the Joint List, would also vote Likud.
The most surprising claim involved his sister, who David said intended to vote for Mansour Abbas's Ra'am party. David stated he told her he would no longer speak to her if she did, leading her to change her vote to Ben-Gvir. He concluded the post by saying, "We feel the change in the air, it's in your hands."
In late August, David announced he was joining Itamar Ben-Gvir's campaign and the Otzma Yehudit youth wing alongside activist Victor Shiriqi. This move drew public criticism due to David's past involvement in altercations with protesters, journalists, and public figures. Ten days prior to this post, David and other activists disrupted a film screening at a Joint List campaign office in Tel Aviv, with David reportedly saying, "You will not screen any film here. This is the land of the Jews." The Joint List claimed violence from the activists, while police stated the incident was over upon their arrival.
Ben-Gvir himself has spoken positively about David, recently telling Channel 12 that he believes David has the potential to become a future minister. David, in turn, suggested on Channel 12 that the network was "scared" of this possibility. As the election nears, David has returned to social media with this unusual family story, leaving it to the public to decide if his claims are a genuine reflection of shifting allegiances or a political tactic.