I’m wondering if there’s a name for a multi-winner election system that only requires that candidates competing in a single district pass a particular percentage threshold of votes to get a seat in the legislature. Of course, this is a core feature of proportional representation forms – usually of the party-list or STV type – but the perception of PR systems is mostly divided over whether to vote for parties or for individuals, as either approach has disadvantages depending upon whether you more respect individual accountability or group accountability to the electoral district’s constituents.
Also, I wonder why I see so many mentions of the term "useful Jew" (both by past anti-Semitic regimes and currently by Israeli nationalists) within the context of being a "token" Jew who is used by Judeophobic individuals or groupings in order to give their Judeophobic advocacies some veneer of credibility, but I don’t see as many mentions of the term "useful Zionist" in regards to a Israeli Jewish nationalist who is being bankrolledsupported by American evangelicals so as to bring about an Armageddon beyond which Judaism and the Jewish state, according to Christian eschatology, is not supposed to survive. Of course, the only people who are using the latter term are Judeophobes and Zionophobes to refer to non-Jewish supporters of the Jewish state, or to harp about Zionist "tricknology".
