Well said, Josh, as always. However, you are not saying the quiet part out loud. The Islamists are the ones pretending to be the progressives. The academics, being funded by Qatar, are preaching the progressive word. They, the Islamists, have infiltrated social media with this message and the oppressors/oppressed mantra. And, the Jews are the canary in the coal mine particularly with Gaza which broke this whole situation wide open. Look at Britain and we see the future of America. Zohran is not a “one off”, he is the trend of which you are speaking. Soon, the worm will turn and the imposition of Sharia law is the goal; right wing will be an understatement.
It is the red green alliance. The Islamists have united with the progressives exactly as they did in Iran in the late 1970s before they killed all the left-wing progressives who supported the coalition.
okay it vus always a commie rag.... but not self-destructive! joos for GeeHaw'd, whut?
Hullo Mudda, Hullo Fadda, lost my HEAD at... that Intifada! There wuz I at.... Kossar's Bialies...an' the next I know I'm headless, oh whut folly! Now I'm floatin'...in the East River... I tried ta gurgle out "oh whut am I, chopped liver?!" But my woids got... "drowned out" by commies... shoutin' "Mullahs Rock" an' "Way to Go, Mamdani!"
Hullo Mudda, Hullo Fadder, scalp them tix ya got--to Harry Potter! This town hates us, cuz we're joosies... Alan Menken pack yer bags, it's all "bad Noozies!" Hello fambly, don't come 'n git me--I'm "a head" of you, the fishes will have "et me".... I know it's not so Appetizin'... but at least you'll stay alive as Mecca's risin!
Listen closely, they're all zingin'---
("No more MazohBrei, NYC is Juden-Frei!")
No more church bells, Comden-Green bells n'er more ringin'!
It's call ta prayer time....they'll be kneelin'
Say yer kaddish vun more time with lotsa feelin'....(oy vey!)
ps got skin in the game--NYC wuz home....we left hopin' one day mebbe we'd return.... ain't likely.... methinks Borough Park & Billyburg joos gonna relocate ta Monsey (vere the air ist cleen).... UWS is gonna git dragged inta them harem-scarum tents by their well coiffed "frosted" pony tails an' they'll be all in with the "sheik" not the chic as they warcth their property values drop faster than that ball on NooYear's eve... wull.... fer a time we hadda purdy sell run of it, eh?
when Forward referred to the "Haram al Sharif" and not TEMPLE MOUNT is when I realized that was akin to the English language Ha Aretz. I never read it.
Another classic. How does he do it day after day? The brilliant Joshua Hoffman sets a standard for all of us and again I will run to keep up. Love you brother !
When I hear people talk about present-day Nazis, I like to remind them that the original Nazis were “National SOCIALISTS.” Usually goes right over their heads.
Nailed it!!! And you said it so much better than I have been trying to say. Our ancestors have walked this, lived this. So this isn't anything new. It is the same story. Just clothed a little differently.
I'm a pissed off old baby boomer of 77. I'm pissed off because Jews are amongst the most accomplished people in the world in just about every human endeavor except the primary and most important thing Jews must alway be cognizant of: self preservation. Why do Jews support people, countries, organizations, inter alia which are inimical to the Jewish people and the State of Israel? WTF? Could it be many Jews have a defective gene that twists their thinking such that Jew hating people of color, or seemingly oppressed Jew haters such as the Palestinians or whatever and whoever the left champions merits Jewish support? A semi sentient honest person perusing 2 millennia of Jewish history could only come to the conclusion that the first and foremost thing Jews must always think of is self preservation and support whatever and do whatever to sustain themselves and the State of Israel. I am not a religious person and thus I will not defer to Hashem to save my butt as history suggests that Jews must defend themselves when the world turns against us as it always does (I have never read or heard of a satisfactory explanation of why Hashem was preoccupied while the Jews were burning, yet many Jews find comfort thinking that Israel needn't worry because Hashem has their back, however in the real world Hashem is unreliable). My anger is not assuaged by the fact that my generation has enjoyed the halcyon and unprecedented era of the relative absence of Jew hatred, particularly in North America, from the end of WWII to about let's say, the late 70s. I have 3 kids and 8 grandkids and I'm scared shitless of what they will have to endure in the coming years. My the anger is exacerbated by Jews who voted for the known anti-Semite Obama - twice!! and Biden and Democrats generally. Why? What is it that I don't get about Jews who support those which wish to do us harm?
I don't feel your characterization of Trump is fair. He has been a solid friend to Israel. If you don't limit immigration, you have no country. The illegals are, well, illegal. They are not due a trial. Your points ignore facts.
Except the “illegals” he’s rounding up with unprecedented brutality and lawlessness are not, in fact, here illegally. And the great majority are also not criminals. So there’s been no unfairness to The Big Dump.
Thank you Josh. My worry is our Jewish brothers and sisters who have lost their memory and therefore are being swept into progressive, faux "tikkun olam" movements which, at root, are antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti Jewish life.
I agree with everything you say here, especially in Europe today, where I’ve lived half a life. But I do think you and others underestimate American resilience in the face of these assaults. We just witnessed an unfathomable four-year lurch to the far left, only to see American voters reject one of the more intense propaganda onslaughts of my lifetime in electing Trump. Even California is starting to wake up. And the American heartland has hardly been touched by all the coastal idiocy.
I’m forecasting at least another 15 years of dismantling the idiocracy in America, by which time we should all be relatively safer.
Europe, on the other hand, teeters today and could still go either way.
Israel, meanwhile, is a rock that will never be washed away.
So as usual, the world is a mess, but there are signs of sanity in the rubble.
'This is not progressivism; it’s ideological nihilism with better branding.'
So on point. I have been in meetings with government employees stating 'let's burn it to the ground.' The irony, is they, and the institution(s) they inhabit, are 'it'.
They are, frankly, too goddamned stupid to realize they don't know how to build anything.
Here in America, the threat from the extreme left has grown more serious and violent. But, only a total partisan wouldn’t also acknowledge that it’s equally serious from the extreme right. There are masked, plain-clothed men on the streets of America’s cities. They refuse to identify their agency or badge numbers. They are going after food vendors, garment workers, day laborers, car washes - not criminals.
Many Jews foolishly ignore or support this lawless deportation effort. But, if you’re one of them, ask yourself if you think the federal police structures will go away & we’ll just go back to regular life & policing once all the immigrants are deported? Look for an example in history where that happened. There isn’t one.
So yes, lots to be wary of for Jews, but definitely look both ways…
You make some legit points, but your argument is undermined the moment one stops nodding along and starts thinking critically. Let’s start with the history. The Iranian Revolution didn’t start because leftists were bored—it happened after the West overthrew Iran’s democratic government in 1953 and installed the Shah, who brutalized the population for decades. That had a lot more to do with oil contracts and Cold War paranoia than with idealism. To ignore that is to skip the first act and pretend the ending came out of nowhere. And also, last I looked the Revolutionary Guard in Iran are anything but liberals.
Same with your Soviet references. You claim Jews saw it coming with Stalin—but skip the part where many early Soviet leaders were themselves Jewish, including 40 percent of the ranks in the NKVD. That’s not a conspiracy, it’s a fact. And when Stalin turned on Jews later, it wasn’t because of "the Left going bad," it was because insecure authoritarian regimes always purge their own. Jews were both executioners and victims, just like everyone else caught in those machines.
That brings me to the core problem in your piece: you paint Jews as eternal canaries in the coal mine, always innocent, always ahead of the curve, always the victim—and yet somehow also the backbone of Western power and virtue. You can't be both the warning and the shield, both powerless and in control. That's not moral clarity; it's narrative inflation.
There’s a real issue here, yes. Some far-left spaces reduce complex issues to tribal binaries. Some play loose with antisemitic tropes. But what you’ve done is weaponize that reality to shut down criticism of Zionism, flatten dissent, and bury the grotesque reality of an ongoing genocide in Gaza under a tidal wave of rhetorical misdirection.
This isn’t about mobs or mobs with degrees. It’s about a state dropping U.S.-made bombs on civilians while pretending to be the last bastion of liberal democracy. It’s about moral panic being used to excuse collective punishment and starvation as a weapon of war while IDF members put out social media posts of themselves committing war crimes with joy and pride, while members of the government and mass media call for the extermination of an entire people. It’s about shouting “remember the Holocaust!” while carrying out ethnic cleansing on live TV.
You say Jews are sounding the alarm. Indeed many are, but not in the way you mean. Some are warning about the very fascism now growing inside Israel, not on the American Left. And they’re being silenced, not platformed.
So no, the sky isn’t falling because a few students chant “Free Palestine.” The real danger is mistaking loyalty to a state for loyalty to justice and calling that moral clarity.
Well said, Josh, as always. However, you are not saying the quiet part out loud. The Islamists are the ones pretending to be the progressives. The academics, being funded by Qatar, are preaching the progressive word. They, the Islamists, have infiltrated social media with this message and the oppressors/oppressed mantra. And, the Jews are the canary in the coal mine particularly with Gaza which broke this whole situation wide open. Look at Britain and we see the future of America. Zohran is not a “one off”, he is the trend of which you are speaking. Soon, the worm will turn and the imposition of Sharia law is the goal; right wing will be an understatement.
As you said, who will listen?
It is the red green alliance. The Islamists have united with the progressives exactly as they did in Iran in the late 1970s before they killed all the left-wing progressives who supported the coalition.
exactly, Rick.
Have you read 'Surrender' by Bruce Bawer? I recommend it.
The liberal New York Jewish publication, The Forward, seems to be all in with the Islamofascist candidate for mayor.
https://forward.com/opinion/732718/after-zohran-mamdanis-upset-theres-a-way-forward-for-pro-israel-progressives/
I cancelled my subscription to The Forward after October 7th. I don’t know what happened to their writers, but it no longer reflects my opinion.
It’s amazing that the “Never Forget” 9/11 was forgotten only 24 years later.
Jews must think 'Nazi Holocaust' when saying Never Forget and Never Again.
Americans’ short memories is one of our greatest weaknesses.
Exactly!
Some Jews wear blinkers in the name of fairness and refusing to think that they should differentiate between good and evil.
Counterpoint: they ain’t really Jewish, regardless of surname.
okay it vus always a commie rag.... but not self-destructive! joos for GeeHaw'd, whut?
Hullo Mudda, Hullo Fadda, lost my HEAD at... that Intifada! There wuz I at.... Kossar's Bialies...an' the next I know I'm headless, oh whut folly! Now I'm floatin'...in the East River... I tried ta gurgle out "oh whut am I, chopped liver?!" But my woids got... "drowned out" by commies... shoutin' "Mullahs Rock" an' "Way to Go, Mamdani!"
Hullo Mudda, Hullo Fadder, scalp them tix ya got--to Harry Potter! This town hates us, cuz we're joosies... Alan Menken pack yer bags, it's all "bad Noozies!" Hello fambly, don't come 'n git me--I'm "a head" of you, the fishes will have "et me".... I know it's not so Appetizin'... but at least you'll stay alive as Mecca's risin!
Listen closely, they're all zingin'---
("No more MazohBrei, NYC is Juden-Frei!")
No more church bells, Comden-Green bells n'er more ringin'!
It's call ta prayer time....they'll be kneelin'
Say yer kaddish vun more time with lotsa feelin'....(oy vey!)
ps got skin in the game--NYC wuz home....we left hopin' one day mebbe we'd return.... ain't likely.... methinks Borough Park & Billyburg joos gonna relocate ta Monsey (vere the air ist cleen).... UWS is gonna git dragged inta them harem-scarum tents by their well coiffed "frosted" pony tails an' they'll be all in with the "sheik" not the chic as they warcth their property values drop faster than that ball on NooYear's eve... wull.... fer a time we hadda purdy sell run of it, eh?
when Forward referred to the "Haram al Sharif" and not TEMPLE MOUNT is when I realized that was akin to the English language Ha Aretz. I never read it.
Absolutely brilliant post! 1,000% TRUTH!
AM YISRAEL CHAI!
Another classic. How does he do it day after day? The brilliant Joshua Hoffman sets a standard for all of us and again I will run to keep up. Love you brother !
Moral compass and gratitude - both lost.
When I hear people talk about present-day Nazis, I like to remind them that the original Nazis were “National SOCIALISTS.” Usually goes right over their heads.
The West is crawling back to the dark ages
they have begun to walk, and will soon brake into a run...
Nailed it!!! And you said it so much better than I have been trying to say. Our ancestors have walked this, lived this. So this isn't anything new. It is the same story. Just clothed a little differently.
I'm a pissed off old baby boomer of 77. I'm pissed off because Jews are amongst the most accomplished people in the world in just about every human endeavor except the primary and most important thing Jews must alway be cognizant of: self preservation. Why do Jews support people, countries, organizations, inter alia which are inimical to the Jewish people and the State of Israel? WTF? Could it be many Jews have a defective gene that twists their thinking such that Jew hating people of color, or seemingly oppressed Jew haters such as the Palestinians or whatever and whoever the left champions merits Jewish support? A semi sentient honest person perusing 2 millennia of Jewish history could only come to the conclusion that the first and foremost thing Jews must always think of is self preservation and support whatever and do whatever to sustain themselves and the State of Israel. I am not a religious person and thus I will not defer to Hashem to save my butt as history suggests that Jews must defend themselves when the world turns against us as it always does (I have never read or heard of a satisfactory explanation of why Hashem was preoccupied while the Jews were burning, yet many Jews find comfort thinking that Israel needn't worry because Hashem has their back, however in the real world Hashem is unreliable). My anger is not assuaged by the fact that my generation has enjoyed the halcyon and unprecedented era of the relative absence of Jew hatred, particularly in North America, from the end of WWII to about let's say, the late 70s. I have 3 kids and 8 grandkids and I'm scared shitless of what they will have to endure in the coming years. My the anger is exacerbated by Jews who voted for the known anti-Semite Obama - twice!! and Biden and Democrats generally. Why? What is it that I don't get about Jews who support those which wish to do us harm?
We Jews have problems on two fronts. One from some corners of the far left. AND the far right.
Trumps people scare me daily. They are implementing the same issues you raise.
Limits to immigration? Check.
Deporting people without trial? Check.
Demonizing Hispanics and gays? Check. We could easily be next.
Building concentration camps that currently hold 50,000 people check.
Who else do you think will go to those camps when the quotas of Hispanics and immigrants are waining?
Not calling out acts of antisemitism? Check. He calls people directly. Never publicly acknowledges it. And
Antisemitism is at record highs.
Trump feeds the far right. You know, Candice Owens. Tucker Carlson, and oh so many others, that just love demonizing Jews, Israel and Democrats.
The Atlantic said it best, Trump is an opportunist. His loyalties are with the Arab states that know how to placate his ego, way more than we do.
Trump isn't our friend. He's there for us when it serves him. Nothing more.
I don't feel your characterization of Trump is fair. He has been a solid friend to Israel. If you don't limit immigration, you have no country. The illegals are, well, illegal. They are not due a trial. Your points ignore facts.
Except the “illegals” he’s rounding up with unprecedented brutality and lawlessness are not, in fact, here illegally. And the great majority are also not criminals. So there’s been no unfairness to The Big Dump.
Thank you Josh. My worry is our Jewish brothers and sisters who have lost their memory and therefore are being swept into progressive, faux "tikkun olam" movements which, at root, are antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti Jewish life.
I agree with everything you say here, especially in Europe today, where I’ve lived half a life. But I do think you and others underestimate American resilience in the face of these assaults. We just witnessed an unfathomable four-year lurch to the far left, only to see American voters reject one of the more intense propaganda onslaughts of my lifetime in electing Trump. Even California is starting to wake up. And the American heartland has hardly been touched by all the coastal idiocy.
I’m forecasting at least another 15 years of dismantling the idiocracy in America, by which time we should all be relatively safer.
Europe, on the other hand, teeters today and could still go either way.
Israel, meanwhile, is a rock that will never be washed away.
So as usual, the world is a mess, but there are signs of sanity in the rubble.
'This is not progressivism; it’s ideological nihilism with better branding.'
So on point. I have been in meetings with government employees stating 'let's burn it to the ground.' The irony, is they, and the institution(s) they inhabit, are 'it'.
They are, frankly, too goddamned stupid to realize they don't know how to build anything.
Definitely, as you Joshua brilliantly described, " The writing is on the wall " , it should not be missed!!!!!!! Blessings.....Am Israel Chai.
The millenarian, doomsday-cult Islamists and Left-wing nihilists are both at the gates and inside the walls.
Here in America, the threat from the extreme left has grown more serious and violent. But, only a total partisan wouldn’t also acknowledge that it’s equally serious from the extreme right. There are masked, plain-clothed men on the streets of America’s cities. They refuse to identify their agency or badge numbers. They are going after food vendors, garment workers, day laborers, car washes - not criminals.
Many Jews foolishly ignore or support this lawless deportation effort. But, if you’re one of them, ask yourself if you think the federal police structures will go away & we’ll just go back to regular life & policing once all the immigrants are deported? Look for an example in history where that happened. There isn’t one.
So yes, lots to be wary of for Jews, but definitely look both ways…
You make some legit points, but your argument is undermined the moment one stops nodding along and starts thinking critically. Let’s start with the history. The Iranian Revolution didn’t start because leftists were bored—it happened after the West overthrew Iran’s democratic government in 1953 and installed the Shah, who brutalized the population for decades. That had a lot more to do with oil contracts and Cold War paranoia than with idealism. To ignore that is to skip the first act and pretend the ending came out of nowhere. And also, last I looked the Revolutionary Guard in Iran are anything but liberals.
Same with your Soviet references. You claim Jews saw it coming with Stalin—but skip the part where many early Soviet leaders were themselves Jewish, including 40 percent of the ranks in the NKVD. That’s not a conspiracy, it’s a fact. And when Stalin turned on Jews later, it wasn’t because of "the Left going bad," it was because insecure authoritarian regimes always purge their own. Jews were both executioners and victims, just like everyone else caught in those machines.
That brings me to the core problem in your piece: you paint Jews as eternal canaries in the coal mine, always innocent, always ahead of the curve, always the victim—and yet somehow also the backbone of Western power and virtue. You can't be both the warning and the shield, both powerless and in control. That's not moral clarity; it's narrative inflation.
There’s a real issue here, yes. Some far-left spaces reduce complex issues to tribal binaries. Some play loose with antisemitic tropes. But what you’ve done is weaponize that reality to shut down criticism of Zionism, flatten dissent, and bury the grotesque reality of an ongoing genocide in Gaza under a tidal wave of rhetorical misdirection.
This isn’t about mobs or mobs with degrees. It’s about a state dropping U.S.-made bombs on civilians while pretending to be the last bastion of liberal democracy. It’s about moral panic being used to excuse collective punishment and starvation as a weapon of war while IDF members put out social media posts of themselves committing war crimes with joy and pride, while members of the government and mass media call for the extermination of an entire people. It’s about shouting “remember the Holocaust!” while carrying out ethnic cleansing on live TV.
You say Jews are sounding the alarm. Indeed many are, but not in the way you mean. Some are warning about the very fascism now growing inside Israel, not on the American Left. And they’re being silenced, not platformed.
https://americannobody.substack.com/p/from-exodus-to-extremism-how-israel
So no, the sky isn’t falling because a few students chant “Free Palestine.” The real danger is mistaking loyalty to a state for loyalty to justice and calling that moral clarity.