In the ever-expanding category of political behavior that is shocking but hardly surprising is Vice President Kamala Harris’s ostentatious snub of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed a joint session of Congress on July 24.

She decided to set out on the campaign trail, where she garnered only a tiny fraction of the attention she got for dissing America’s most important Middle Eastern ally and friend. She secured none of the praise that would have come to her had she taken command of the august setting in which Netanyahu delivered a stirring invocation from the moral high ground of the House podium of the absolute good of liberal democracy and the utter evil of Islamist terrorism.