FUTURE OF JEWISH
J Street is not being honest about Israel
Joshua Hoffman
June 2, 2026

…Ben-Ami writes that younger Jews are increasingly “drifting away from traditional support for Israel and toward visions such as a single binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.” Since when are any Jews outside of Israel entitled to determine Israel’s borders? Is it not whiny, condescending, and arrogant for people who do not live and have never lived in Israel to tell Israelis what their borders should and shouldn’t be? If Ben-Ami cares so much about younger generations of Jews, he should speak honestly about Israel, not brainwash them into thinking that the Jewish state is some cancer while nobody proposes dissolving Jordan’s Arab identity, nobody proposes dismantling Egypt’s national character, and nobody suggests that France, Greece, Poland, Armenia, Japan, or Ireland surrender their national identities in favor of multinational political experiments. In Ben-Ami’s mind, it is honorable for only the Jewish state to routinely be told that preserving its national character is morally suspect. READ MORE