For decades, the Democratic Party has built its Middle East foreign policy around the gravitational pull of the U.S.-Israel relationship, leaving the question of Palestine — its governance, its economy, its self-determination — largely unanswered. Critics from across the party's ideological spectrum now argue that this asymmetry is no longer sustainable, as the gap between stated values and concrete policy grows harder to ignore. What a party believes about human rights and self-determination is ultimately measured not by its sympathies, but by the specificity of its commitments.