FUTURE OF JEWISH
‘Progressive Zionism’ makes no sense at all.
Joshua Hoffman
July 5, 2026

…“Progressive Zionism” is not really a coherent political philosophy. It is an attempt to hold Zionism inside a so-called “progressive” moral framework that was largely constructed for a different world, with different assumptions, different enemies, and different consequences. It is Zionism rewritten so that it can receive approval at a dinner party in San Francisco. The “progressive Zionist” usually begins with two deeply held beliefs. The first is that the Jewish People have a legitimate right to a state in their ancestral homeland. The second is that the ideological principles of contemporary Western progressivism provide the best framework for understanding the world in complete binaries, such as racism and anti-racism, the so-called “oppressors” and “oppressed,” colonialism and anti-colonialism, and so forth. READ MORE

CITY JOURNAL I Watched the DSA Go Crazy. The Democrats May Be Next How worried should Democrats be about the Democratic Socialists of America? In the wake of a series of DSA victories in New York City, Jonathan Chait raised the alarm in The Atlantic, writing that as the group has risen in power, it has also grown “more hostile to the [Democratic] party, more illiberal, and more dogmatic.” Long-time DSA members, including former staff member and thought leader David Duhalde and socialist magazine publisher Nathan J. Robinson, pushed back, dismissing Chait as someone who doesn’t know or understand the DSA. Well, I know the DSA, and as someone who was a member and served in local leadership, I can say that Chait has it right: today’s DSA is not a harmless organization.