Your morning read from @SnoozyWeiss in @TheFP on why Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, would be a good pick as Kamala's running mate, but is being cast aside for being Jewish. "Shapiro would make a lot of sense. No state is more important to Kamala’s chances than Pennsylvania, where Shapiro’s approval ratings are through the sloped roof. He is also a moderate capable of talking about Republicans like they are human beings. (Watch his tribute to Corey Comperatore, the firefighter and father murdered in the Trump rally shooting.) What’s not to like? Describing the pros and cons of picking Shapiro, CNN’s John King said, “He’s a first-term governor, he’s Jewish, there could be some risks in putting him on the ticket.” Is the election on Rosh Hashanah or something? To understand what King, however inelegantly, was getting at, look no further than an article in The New Republic by David Klion. Klion says that Shapiro has been “egregiously bad on Palestine” and that his selection therefore threatens the unity of the Democratic Party. Klion’s evidence of this egregious badness relates not to Shapiro’s record on the actual war in Gaza (not something that state governors really have much say over), but the tough line he has taken with anti-Israel activism. You see, Shapiro dared to suggest that campus encampments aren’t great. And as Pennsylvania attorney general, he targeted BDS campaigns because they are “rooted in antisemitism.” Which they are. It seems that Klion’s understanding of “egregiously bad on Palestine” is just “pretty good on antisemitism.” But we wouldn’t want to upset the Iranians, uh, I mean the base."
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