Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro alleged that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ staff wondered if he was a double agent for Israel when vetting him as a potential 2024 vice presidential nominee.
He wrote in his new memoir Where we keep the lightThe prominent Democratic governor alleged that the former vice president’s vetting team scrutinized his views on Israel, mostly because he is Jewish.
“Were you a double agent for Israel?” Shapiro wrote in describing his insulting response to a last-minute question from the screening team. When the question was raised because of its obvious anti-Semitic overtones, the team said: “Well, we have to ask.”
The questioner, former White House adviser Dana Remus, allegedly asked: “Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent for Israel?” “If they’re undercover,” Shapiro recalled saying in response, “how the hell would I know?”
While Shapiro doesn’t begrudge Remus for following directions, he noted that the questions made clear “a lot about some of the people around the vice president.”
According to New York TimesThey do not represent Dana Remus or Kamala Harris Comment On this claim.
“Mr. Shapiro, that sincere A critic of what he saw as anti-Semitism on campus amid the war between Israel and Hamas wrote that he encountered doubts about it. register During the examination,” he noted times. “When I asked Ms. Harris if he would be prepared to apologize for the statements I made, particularly regarding what I saw happen at the University of Pennsylvania, he responded that he would not,” he wrote.
“I believe in freedom of expression, and I will defend it with everything I have,” he wrote. “Most of the speeches on campus, even those I disagreed with, were peaceful and constitutionally protected. But some of them were not.”
He also wrote: “I wondered if these questions were only being asked of me — the only Jewish man in the race — or if everyone who has not held federal office is being questioned about Israel in the same way.”
While Shapiro praised the screening team for being “professional and practical,” he admitted he had “a knot in my stomach through it all.”
This is not the first time Shapiro has criticized Kamala Harris and her team for their treatment of him during the vetting process. As Breitbart News reported in December, the Pennsylvania governor accused the former vice president of pushing “blatant lies” in her memoir. 107 daysHe was accused of dominating the conversation when being interviewed as a potential MP.
He added: “This is complete nonsense. I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.” He said Atlantic.
Atlantic She recalled some of the questions Kamala Harris claimed to have asked him during the interview, such as the size of the vice president’s Naval Observatory home and whether the governor could loan works of art to Pennsylvanians for housing.
“I mean, she’s trying to sell books and cover her ass,” Shapiro was quoted as saying. Atlantic He then allegedly backed down and said: “I shouldn’t have said ‘cover her butt’. I think that’s inappropriate. She’s trying to sell books. Period.”
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