Americans Must Reject Kamala Harris’s Cave to the Darker Parts of the Democratic Party
One politician stole the show in Philadelphia this week when Kamala Harris rolled out the 2024 Democrat vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. It wasn’t Harris, Walz, Philadelphia Major Cherelle Parker, or the other little-known speakers. The politician who brought the house down was the man who unexpectedly was not chosen to be Harris’s VP: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Shapiro gave a rousing speech that was inaudible at times due to a “thunderous applause” that illustrated “Pennsylvania Democrats’ love for the first-term governor.” Given that Pennsylvania may decide the 2024 presidential race and Minnesota appears firmly in the Democratic column, how could Harris pass over Shapiro and choose Walz?
The Harris campaign said the decision was because Harris and Walz have good chemistry. The campaign also claimed Walz was chosen to help Harris, a California liberal, pick up votes in the Midwest. There were also press reports that Shapiro was not chosen because he was too ambitious and might have overshadowed Harris.
There may be some truth in these explanations. But make no mistake: the main reason Harris did not select Shapiro is because anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas progressives pressured her not to choose the Pennsylvania governor since he is a pro-Israel Jew.
Progressives have denounced Shapiro as “genocide Josh” for his support of Israel in its war against Hamas and for criticizing U.S. universities for failing to protect Jewish students during violent pro-Hamas protests that broke out on many campuses last spring.
This included Shapiro’s condemnation of then-University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill’s testimony before Congress, in which she described determining whether speech calling for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s rules of conduct as “a context-dependent decision.” Shapiro called her statement “shameful and unacceptable.”
To his credit, Florida Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz expressed his disgust with the progressive campaign against Shapiro in an August 1 tweet:
CNN commentator Van Jones made a similar comment on August 6, saying that Harris caved in to the “darker parts” of the Democratic Party when selecting her running mate. Jones also said he believed that elements of anti-Semitism have been “marbled in” to the Democratic Party.
Although some have accused Harris of giving in to Israel-hatred and anti-Semitism in her party when she didn’t choose Shapiro, this decision also reflected her own pro-Hamas, anti-Israel views. This is why Middle East expert Caroline Glick has called Harris “the most outspokenly anti-Israel member of the administration.”
Even the Biden White House regards Harris’s anti-Israel views as a problem. These views reportedly led the National Security Council last March to water down harsh remarks about Israel and the humanitarian situation in Gaza in a speech that Harris planned to deliver. The vice president’s office denied this report.
Harris’s anti-Israel bias was clear when Prime Minister Netanyahu visited Washington last month. Harris failed to meet Netanyahu when his plane landed outside Washington and skipped his speech to a joint session of Congress. Although Harris agreed to meet privately with Netanyahu, the Israeli leader reportedly was irritated by her on-camera statement after the meeting, which he believed would harm negotiations over a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, according to an Axios report.
Harris spurned Shapiro for Governor Tim Walz, one of the most far-left governors in the United States. Walz’s positions on Israel and the Israel-Gaza War are generally nuanced and similar to Biden’s. Harris probably assumed the Hamas wing of her party would accept Walz to deny the VP post to Shapiro and because of his progressive positions. Walz’s praise for Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, whom the Republican Jewish Coalition once called “the most vicious anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Member of Congress,” probably helped endear him to the Democratic Party’s far left.
So desperate was Harris to appease progressives by picking Walz that she reportedly ignored reports that he avoided a tour of military service in Iraq and misrepresented his military career before Harris chose him. This issue has become a growing scandal and forced the Harris campaign to quietly reviseWatz’s biography on the campaign website.
Because of the corrupt process that led to the un-democratic selection of Kamala Harris to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman recently endorsed Donald Trump and called for Harris to be overwhelmingly defeated for the good of the party. Ackman said in an August 6 tweet:
Ackman is right. There are many reasons for the Harris/Walz ticket to be defeated. But I believe the most important thing is that a political party that is so broken that it would reject a vice presidential candidate who could substantially increase its chances of winning a presidential election because of his religion deserves to lose decisively.
Therefore, when going to the polls or casting their mail-in ballots for president this fall, the American people must vote to repudiate the dangerous increase in anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, and anti-Semitic sentiments in the Democratic Party and the far-left radicals like Kamala Harris who are promoting them.
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