Likudnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Likudniks
form: Likudnikim
form: Likudniki
Etymology: From Hebrew לִיכּוּדנִיק (likúdnik), from לִיכּוּד (likúd, “Likud”, literally “consolidation”) + ־נִיק (-nik, suffix denoting persons by membership, occupation or attribute). By surface analysis, Likud + -nik.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1984 July 29, Conor Cruise O’Brien, “What the Israeli debate is about”, in The Observer, number 10060, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 6:
text: He [Jon Haber] brings to the Net de-mentality of Baruch Goldstein, honored today in Israel by the Likudniki, and of Yigal Amir.
ref: 1996 January 3, Hal Womack, “[Noam] Chomsky Names Deutsch Saint, Maybe Messiah”, in ba.politics (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Aug 2025:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, Deborah Weissman, “Response”, in Allon Gal, Alfred Gottschalk, editors, Beyond Survival and Philanthropy: American Jewry and Israel, Cincinnati, Oh.: Hebrew Union College Press, →ISBN, “The Modern Jewish Kulturkampf” section, page 116:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, George Sunderland [pseudonym of a Congressional staff member], “Our Vichy Congress”, in The Minaret, volume 24, Los Angeles, Calif.: Islamic Center of Southern California, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 2:
text: 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!
ref: 2014, Smadar Lavie, quoting Vicky Knafo, “Introduction: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Single Mothers”, in Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizraḥi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
text: 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.
ref: 2020, Daniella Levy, “Not the Way”, in Disengagement: Leaving Home, Finding Home, & Encounters Along the Way, Alfei Menashe; Saint Paul, Minn.: Kasva Press, →ISBN, page 72:
text: 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.
ref: 2025 January 6, Ariel Beery, “Three ways the democracy movement can win over the next two years”, in The Times of Israel (The Blogs), Jerusalem, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2025:
glosses: A supporter of the Israeli political party Likud.