Pro-Palestine activists have repeatedly been beaten back at Harvard, and sure enough, today the school paper’s endorsement of BDS is facing intense backlash. But this time round the pro-Israel arguments feel familiar, and have lost their bite. Faculty and alumni letters claim the endorsement will cause Jewish students to feel alienated. One alum warns angrily that Harvard will lose Iron Dome protection. Gosh.

Two prominent men demoted because of association with Jeffrey Epstein last week shared with him a love of Israel. Leon Black gave $1.25 million to Zionist indoctrination program Birthright. And so the Epstein scandal is revealing the ways that high-stakes social and professional networking serve the Israel lobby in the U.S.

Here is what the Democratic Party’s Israel lobby sees as Israel/Palestine policy under a Biden administration.