The ghettoization of Josh Shapiro and why he wasn't chosen

(JNS) — On paper, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro looks like a more or less perfect Democratic vice-presidential candidate: He is a generally well-liked moderate from a swing state and, following the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, displayed remarkable gravitas and compassion on a national stage.

Shapiro is also Jewish, meaning he might help the Democrats shore up its Jewish support, which despite the conspiracy of silence imposed on the issue is fraying.

However, many of us feel there was little to no chance that Shapiro would be chosen due to the enormous power the Red-Green Alliance of progressive leftists and Muslim supremacists now exercises.

The Alliance essentially constitutes the antisemitic wing of the Democratic Party and has declared Shapiro a mortal enemy. Indeed, the Alliance has already gone so far as to rewrite its defamatory moniker for President Joe Biden — “genocide Joe.” As if on Pavlovian queue, the watchword suddenly became: “No genocide Josh!”

Given this, it’s difficult to believe that The Philadelphia Inquirer’s recent report about an essay Shapiro wrote decades ago was solely the result of diligent research.

The report amounts to little more than this: In the mid-1990s, Shapiro wrote in the University of Rochester’s campus newspaper that “Palestinians will not peacefully coexist” because “they are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”

It is telling that Shapiro is now acting as if, in writing this, he committed some abominable act of blasphemy—as, in a way, he has.

His spokesman Manuel Bonder pronounced: “As the governor has made clear for years, he supports a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians can live together peacefully—and he believes it is critical for leaders on both sides of this conflict to take meaningful, necessary steps towards a lasting peace.”

Bonder also stressed Shapiro’s ecumenical bona fides, saying Shapiro “has built close, meaningful, informative relationships with many Muslim-American, Arab-American, Palestinian Christian and Jewish community leaders.”

“The governor greatly values their perspectives and the experiences he has learned from over the years—and as a result, as with many issues, his views on the Middle East have evolved into the position he holds today,” Bonder added.

This is standard doggerel and, while it is worth noting the irony that Shapiro appears to have cultivated relationships with several communities that are now overwhelmingly antisemitic, the real issue is that Shapiro felt the need to defend himself in the first place.

After all, what Shapiro wrote was obviously correct. If the Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing months of war have proven anything, it is that the Palestinians are unwilling to “peacefully coexist” and “are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.”

Moreover, the Red-Green Alliance itself declares as much. Its infamous and endlessly repeated “river to the sea” slogan, for example, is nothing more than a call for endless war unto genocide.

In other words, Shapiro had their number back in the 1990s, and they know it. That he nonetheless rushed to appease them speaks volumes about the deplorable state of the Democratic Party: It is not the genocidal antisemites who must beg forgiveness, but the man who points out that they are genocidal antisemites.

In this sense, it is irrelevant whether Shapiro was ultimately chosen or not. What is important is what lies behind the Red-Green Alliance’s assault on him.

The Red-Green Alliance has adopted a simple and ambitious strategy: to ghettoize the American Jewish community. This strategy is based on the most fervently held principle of the Alliance’s catechism: that the Jews are a corrupt plutocracy that rules the world in order to oppress, exploit, dispossess and slaughter non-Jews. American Jews, the Alliance believes, are the head of this particular snake. Thus, to break the Jewish conspiracy and with it Israel, the American Jewish community must be broken.

The Alliance plans to accomplish this by stripping American Jews of whatever political, economic and cultural power they have achieved over their long sojourn in the United States; relegating them to the margins of American life.

The Alliance believes that making support for Israel verboten will force Jews out of politics, academia, K-12 education, the activist and entertainment industries, government bureaucracy and so on. Certainly, no Jewish politician will be permitted to achieve high office.

Then, through the use of mob violence and intimidation, the Alliance will begin to push Jews out of certain neighborhoods, cities and perhaps even entire sections of the country by making Jewish life unlivable. The endgame is to impose on American Jews what the Alliance has already imposed on European Jews, who are politically powerless and confined to small neighborhoods with their synagogues under heavy guard and their children afraid to walk the streets.

Obviously, a Jewish vice president would be a massive if not fatal setback for the Red-Green Alliance. So, the Alliance intends to prevent it at all costs.

American Jews should be on notice: The attacks on Shapiro are merely warning shots, signs of things to come. So, American Jews must hit back — and hard.