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Likudnik
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Etymology
From en he לִיכּוּדנִיק likúdnik, from he לִיכּוּד Likud likúd consolidation + he ־נִיק -nik suffix denoting persons by membership, occupation or attribute. en Likud -nik.
Noun
+ Likudnikim Likudniki
A supporter of the Israeli political party Likud.
en 29 July 1984 Conor Cruise O’Brien What the Israeli debate is about w:The Observer 10060 London 7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/257654406/ 6 0029-7712 5653614 The elections did show the expected quite sharp drop in support for the Likud. But Labour’s campaign to attract former Likud supporters failed. Disillusioned Likudniki seem to have either stayed away or voted for one of the religious parties.
en 3 January 1996 Hal Womack Noam Chomsky Names Deutsch Saint, Maybe Messiah ba.politics https://web.archive.org/web/20250816093739/https://groups.google.com/g/ba.politics/c/0L-4CHNtIdw/m/uX51KD-JSWMJ He Jon Haber brings to the Net de-mentality of Baruch Goldstein, honored today in Israel by the Likudniki, and of Yigal Amir.
en 2000 Deborah Weissman Response Allon Gal; Alfred Gottschalk Beyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel Cincinnati, Oh. Hebrew Union College Press “The Modern Jewish Kulturkampf” section 116 https://archive.org/details/beyondsurvivalph0000unse/page/116/mode/1up 0-87820-218-8 Many of us looked forward to the elections for some hopeful signs, and I suppose that about half of our population were at least partially satisfied with the outcome. Nevertheless, even dyed in the wool Likudnikim may be disturbed by some of the results—the rise of Jewish fundamentalism or the tremendous drop in the representation of women.
en 2002 George Sunderland pseudonym of a Congressional staff member Our Vichy Congress The Minaret 24 Los Angeles, Calif. w:Islamic Center of Southern California 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=LHnxAAAAMAAJ&q=%22identifying+these+Congressional%22 2 0892-0559 15080166 All Americans, be they old-line conservatives who hate seeing their country hopelessly embroiled in the Old World’s perpetual quarrels, or liberals in the honorable anti-imperialist and anti-militarist tradition of William Jennings Bryan, or the apolitical who resent the prospect of becoming an irradiated corpse, must put aside their differences and start loudly and persistently identifying these Congressional Likudniki for what they are: quislings.
en 2014 w:Smadar Lavie Vicky Knafo Introduction: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Single Mothers Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizraḥi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire w:Berghahn Books 4–5 https://archive.org/details/wrappedinflagofi0000lavi/page/5/mode/1up 978-1-78238-222-5 I’m marching on Jerusalem for tens of thousands of Israeli single moms. Enough’s enough. Up to 29 June, we were big-time Likudnikim [“Likud party supporters,” Hebrew] and voted for Bibi [Benjamin Netanyahu]. He gonna hear from me no more!
en 2020 Daniella Levy Not the Way Disengagement: Leaving Home, Finding Home, & Encounters Along the Way Alfei Menashe; Saint Paul, Minn. Kasva Press 72 https://books.google.com/books?id=M87SDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 978-1-948403-13-9 We stayed up nights, we went door to door, we spoke to the Likudnikim, we even convinced many of them to change their votes, but none of that helped in the end.
en 6 January 2025 Ariel Beery Three ways the democracy movement can win over the next two years w:The Times of Israel The Blogs https://web.archive.org/web/20250113035040/https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/three-ways-the-democracy-movement-can-win-over-the-next-two-years/ Jerusalem 0040-7909 1076401854 It can safely be assumed the reason the Likudnikim at the head of the list were not swayed is that they had far more to gain by staying in the Likud than leaving it.
Adjective
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Of or relating to Likudniks and their policies.
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