The war in Gaza has done a lot of visible damage to the Democratic Party’s once-unconditional support for Israel. For a while, Joe Biden held back the tide of Democratic anger against Israel’s conduct of the war via a combination of support for its right to self-defense in the wake of Hamas’s deadly October 7 attacks and increasingly vocalizing (if not all that effective) calls on Israel to display more humanitarian concern for civilian life. Kamala Harris carried the same basic position into her presidential campaign with arguably a bit more willingness to criticize Israel without risking a real break.

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency and gave Benjamin Netanyahu more slack — and occasionally defiant support against global opprobrium — in his conduct of the war, restive

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