Zionism needs no progressive permission

Zionism needs no progressive permission

(JNS) — Bernard Avishai has identified a Zionism that American progressives can still be permitted to support. Writing in The New York Times, Avishai urges American progressives not to abandon Israel’s “cultural Zionists.” His argument cites a familiar division: There is a secular, liberal, democratic Zionism worthy of progressive sympathy, and then there is the increasingly religious and national...