“Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s revelation that he was asked by a member of Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential team vetting him whether he had ever been an Israeli agent has reopened a wound for many American Jews — one that never fully healed.

Harris ultimately chose Tim Walz over Shapiro amid an ugly campaign mounted by the far left that dubbed Shapiro “Genocide Josh,” despite his positions on Israel being nearly indistinguishable from Walz’s. That campaign highlighted how the far left had successfully turned any personal ties to Israel into a disqualifier.

More disquietingly, the anti-Shapiro campaign subjected American Jews to antisemitic accusations of dual loyalty. Nearly a quarter century after Joe Lieberman became the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket, the anti-Shapiro campaign raised the specter of Jewish identity posing an insurmountable electoral hurdle…”

Read the full piece in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency