Journalist Peter Beinart’s latest jeremiad purports to tell of the parting of the ways between liberalism and Zionism. It is a drum he has been beating for a while, and the New York Times is only too happy to be a boombox for the Beinart beat. He blames Zionism for the split, but he has it, in our view, backwards. If liberalism can no longer abide the political creed of Herzl and Jabotinsky, it is because liberalism has become illiberal.