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September 18, 2024

Josh Shapiro’s Missed Opportunity

Instead of Jewish pride, a mealy-mouthed masterpiece.

When the governor of Pennsylvania was being considered as a possible vice-presidential pick for the Democratic ticket, Israel-haters, looking to smear him, circulated claims that he had served in the IDF. This turned out not to be quite true: Josh Shapiro merely spent some time as a teenager as a civilian volunteer at an IDF base. Meir Soloveichik examines the denial issued by the Jewish politician’s spokesman, Manuel Bonder, and the cowardice it revealed:

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