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Source: https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/josh-shapiro-and-the-no-free-shots-rule/
The Attack on Gov. Josh Shapiro Is an Attack on American Jewry
(Commentary) Seth Mandel - In his forthcoming book, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro writes that in 2024, Kamala Harris's vetting team asked him: "Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?" That was apparently followed-up with a question about whether Shapiro had ever met with an undercover agent of the Israeli government. The vetting team also suggested that Harris wanted him to apologize for his harsh criticism of Hamas fans who harassed Jews. Jewish leaders wasted no time in criticizing the Harris team's embrace of the dual-loyalty canard. After all, if Shapiro can be disqualified for having as a teenager visited Israel and volunteering on a kibbutz, it could potentially have a chilling effect on young American Jews, who are already being pressured into hiding their involvement in Jewish communal activities. The attack on Shapiro is an attack on American Jewry. "I wondered," he writes, "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." Shapiro concluded that the whole affair "said a lot about some of the people around the VP." As to whether Shapiro would, as Harris requested, grovel and beg the forgiveness of people chasing Jews while cheering Hamas's Nazi atrocities, he "flatly" said no. Shapiro isn't letting them take free shots at the Jews. An antisemitic and anti-Israel lunatic set fire to Shapiro's house while his family was inside on Passover. Should he apologize to the man who tried to murder his family, too?