In 1981 a senator and former American ambassador to the United Nations, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, wrote a piece in Commentary magazine called “Joining the Jackals.” In it, the Democratic sage laid President Reagan’s defeat of President Carter to a March 1980 event, in which Carter’s envoy at Turtle Bay, Donald F. McHenry, “voted in favor of a particularly vicious anti-Israel resolution in the Security Council of the United Nations.”