Party primaries tend to discourage ideological heterodoxy. For Democrats, this makes getting pro-Israel candidates into office more difficult. Witness, for example, Scott Wiener’s ostentatious spectacle of shame in California. The progressive gatekeeping on Israel is so intense that candidates who simply don’t hate the Jewish state are having to obscure their heresy just to squeak past the anti-Zionist bouncers. The best chance is to run someone with name recognition who won’t be susceptible to