Governor Cuomo did a lightning visit to Israel last weekend and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but had no report on the meeting other than this short video.

Netanyahu: Thanks for your constant support for Israel. Cuomo: My pleasure. We wouldn’t do it any other way.

But Israeli consul-general Dani Dayan accompanied Cuomo on the trip, and he offered this report on the Brian Lehrer show Tuesday:

[Cuomo] said that the Democratic Party was traditionally the most pro-Israeli of the two American parties and he doesn’t understand why in the fringes of the Democratic Party there is a different attitude towards Israel. As a progressive, he believes Israel should be a Democratic cause. I believe he will use his influence inside the Democratic Party to make sure it happens. The Prime Minister said that we see bipartisanship, bipartisan support of Israel, to prevent Israel from becoming a wedge issue in American politics –as a vital interest of the state of Israel.

Asked by Lehrer to elaborate, Dayan said, “You cannot unfortunately miss the fact that in the fringe left of the Democratic Party there are some elements that are blatantly anti-Israel, some even support BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions). I think that’s what he referred to.”

Cuomo signed an executive order against BDS last year, barring state business with people who have the wrong position on Israel. For his part, Brian Lehrer makes sure that BDS is “fringe” by never having supporters of BDS on his show to argue for it. But polling shows that liberal Democrats now sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis by three-to-two. Driving the change are the young, women, and blacks and Hispanics, the progressive base of the party.

Lehrer’s exchange with Dayan is amusing because Dayan repeatedly refused to criticize Donald Trump. Some of those gymnastics: