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Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, a prominent Democrat who was a top contender to serve as former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate in 2024, offered his most detailed accounting to date of the vice-presidential search process in his new memoir, which was obtained by The New York Times.In Mr. Shapiro’s book, “Where We Keep the Light,” the governor is measured in describing his interactions with Ms. Harris herself. But Mr. Shapiro, who is Jewish, details a contentious vetting process in which Ms. Harris’s team focused intensely on his views on Israel — so much so that at one point, he wrote, he was asked if he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government.“Had I been a double agent for Israel?” wrote Mr. Shapiro, describing his incredulous response to a last-minute question from the vetting team. He responded that the question was offensive, he wrote, and was told, “Well, we have to ask.”“Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?” the questioner, Dana Remus, a former White House counsel, continued, according to Mr. Shapiro, who recounted, “If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?”Mr. Shapiro, an outspoken critic of what he saw as antisemitism on college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war, wrote that he faced skepticism of that record during vetting. “I wondered whether these questions were being posed to just me — the only Jewish guy in the running — or if everyone who had not held a federal office was being grilled about Israel in the same way.”
I think we know the answer to that question. Shapiro was under suspicion of being an Israeli agent because he is Jewish.
That is antisemitic by any definition. Forget the IHRA working definition - the Nexus Document, written as a more progressive-friendly definition of antisemitism, says these are antisemitic:
- Holding individuals or institutions, because they are Jewish, a priori culpable of real or imagined wrongdoing committed by Israel.- Considering Jews to be a priori incapable of setting aside their loyalty to the Jewish people and/or Israel.- Denigrating or denying the Jewish identity of certain Jews because they are perceived as holding the “wrong” position (whether too critical or too favorable) on Israel.
It would be OK if they asked every potential candidate if they had any links to any foreign government, or received funds from any entity (foreign or domestic) that could be embarrassing because of terror or criminal ties.
But to ask the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania if he is an Israeli agent means that Jews are not to be entirely trusted as full Americans.
Yes, that is antisemitism.
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