On Friday, November 7, 2014 9:53:27 PM UTC-5, jon_banquer wrote:

Even if one is explicitly and actively anti-racist and anti-sexist,
opposed to oppression, favours economic equality, fights for
workers rights, actively supports the LGBT community, advocates
strict gun control, stands for ecological reforms; one will be
at best a very suspect, indeed even an unwelcome, member of
what constitutes today's left and being progressive without
having decidedly and explicitly anti-Zionist views."

I can't see having ALL of those progressive leftist "Peace and Love" qualities AND be against a certain religion.