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Actor Michael Rapaport reacted Tuesday to Vice President Kamala Harris’s choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate by mocking rival contender Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro for disavowing his pro-Israel views in vain.
Shapiro, a young, attractive, moderate governor from a key swing state, was thought to be the top choice until anti-Israel voices within the Democratic Party objected to his pro-Israel views. Some believed the objections were also antisemitic: Shapiro’s views are not too different from those of Walz or other contenders, but he is Jewish, which attracted disproportionate suspicion and hostility from the most vociferously anti-Israel voices within the party base.
In an apparent last-ditch effort to save his candidacy, Shapiro recanted some of his earlier pro-Israel views earlier this week, saying they were the product of his naïve youth.In a post on X , Rapaport used Shapiro as an example of a Jew who tried to save himself from anti-Jewish prejudice by criticizing Israel — to no avail.
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