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On social issues, American “family values” language—once absent in Israeli discourse—entered mainstream politics, shaping debates on feminism, LGBT rights, and Israel’s refusal to sign the Istanbul Convention.

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The outcome? A genuine ideological shift within Israel’s Right. Yet this shift was not a rupture but a reconfiguration. The Israeli Right retained its core tenets - ethno-nationalism and territorial maximalism—while integrating new conservative ideas into its broader ideological framework.

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We propose a new mechanism to explain it: Diaspora–Local Cooperation (DLC): Collaboration between diaspora and homeland actors who share both values and a sense of belonging to the same nation.

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Existing theories of ideational importation - via states, experts, or transnational networks - can’t explain this. The U.S. didn’t promote it; Israeli experts opposed it; and no global conservative think-tank network was at play.

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American-style conservatism - free markets, family values, judicial restraint - was historically foreign to Israel’s Right, which focused on ethnonationalism and territorial maximalism. Yet recently, the Israeli Right started embracing these ideas. Why?

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On social issues, American “family values” language - once absent in Israeli discourse - entered mainstream politics, shaping debates on feminism, LGBT rights, and Israel’s refusal to sign the Istanbul Convention.

I have joined hundreds of other Israeli academics in calling on our academic system to take immediate action against the war in Gaza—for the sake of the lives that can still be saved and for our future here.

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