As I Suspected, Kamala’s Campaign Was Antisemitic All Along

Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz as her running mate never made any sense, and he was undeniably a disaster. Many conservatives were worried she’d pick Josh Shapiro, the popular governor of Pennsylvania. I never believed she would because of how antisemitic the Democratic Party has become since the Obama era. Between his open support of Israel and outspokenness against Hamas, he was never a good fit for the party.

According to Kamala’s campaign memoir, 107 Days, Shapiro was taken out of consideration because he “wanted to be too involved in the presidency should they win,” adding, “I told him bluntly that was an unrealistic expectation. A vice president is not a co-president.” She wrote that she had “a nagging concern that he would be unable to settle for a role as number two and that it would wear on our partnership.” Kamala alleged that during their interview, Shapiro attempted to dominate the discussion by insisting on being “in the room for every decision.”

Personally, I never believed that story. I always suspected that deep down, antisemitism played a role. And Shapiro has now confirmed it.

Shapiro, who is considered by some analysts a potential candidate for the 2028 Democratic nomination, made clear he has no intention of letting Kamala rewrite history of what happened during the vetting process, and has now published his own memoir, Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service, in which he revealed the blatant antisemitism within Kamala’s campaign operation.

Shapiro was the only Jewish candidate on the shortlist. During the vetting, Dana Remus, Joe Biden’s former White House counsel, working as a senior member of Kamala’s team, asked him a shocking question. “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?” Shapiro writes that he found the question deeply offensive and interpreted it as essentially asking whether he had been a double agent for Israel. When he objected, Remus told him the team was “just doing its job” and then asked whether he had ever communicated with an Israeli undercover agent. Shapiro shot back with sarcasm. “If they were undercover, how the hell would I know?”

The question tracks a longstanding antisemitic stereotype that Jews are inherently disloyal to their own country or secretly working for Israel.

Shapiro describes himself as a pro-Israel governor and says Remus “was just doing her job,” but he makes clear what he thinks about the people who instructed her to ask it. The fact that she asked or was instructed to ask “said a lot about some of the people around the VP,” he writes. He was also pressed on whether he would apologize for prior comments about University of Pennsylvania protesters who built encampments opposing Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and who, in some cases, intimidated Jewish students. Shapiro writes that “It nagged at me that their questions weren’t really about substance. Rather, they were questioning my ideology, my approach, my world view.” (RELATED: Here’s How Obama and Biden Made the Democrats the Antisemitic Party)

The final straw came when Remus told him the vice presidency “might be a financial burden for him and his wife.” Shapiro responded by asking, “Are you trying to convince me not to do this?” He says that suggestion led him to decide he wanted nothing more to do with the vice-presidential selection process under Kamala.

By the sounds of it, the vetting of Shapiro was just for show, and he was never truly considered. An obvious reason for that is his Jewish faith.

And it’s a bigger problem in the party establishment than people realize.

Aaron Keyak, former deputy special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the State Department and a board member of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told ABC News on Monday that he was surprised at “how blatant the rhetoric was when it comes to playing into antisemitic tropes.”

“What’s even the point of asking that question in that way? Were they trying to send some sort of message to Gov. Shapiro? Were they trying to intimidate him?” Keyak said.

Keyak, who is Jewish, said he had also been asked questions during the vetting process for his own Biden administration State Department role that he later heard non-Jewish appointees were not. He said he was not able to share the specifics of the questions, but that the implications of the questions were similar to what Shapiro had allegedly been asked.

The Democratic Party can no longer hide behind hollow slogans about tolerance while harboring antisemitism within its ranks. What happened to Shapiro isn’t an isolated scandal—it’s a symptom of a deeper disease festering at the core of the modern left.