Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro speaks during the Shapiro-Davis re-election campaign kickoff rally in Philadelphia on Jan. 8.Hannah Beier/Reuters

If the only Jewish candidate making it all the way to the last round of interviews to become Kamala Harris’s running mate is asked whether he has ever acted as a double agent for Israel, is that antisemitism?

If the answer is yes, the next question has to be: whose antisemitism?

This headline-making revelation is contained in Josh Shapiro’s forthcoming memoir, Where We Keep the Light. Advance copies were obtained by U.S. media outlets including The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Mr. Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, was one of three potential running mates interviewed by Ms. Harris for the position during her whirlwind campaign for the presidency, after Joe Biden stepped aside. Just before their sit-down interview in August, 2024, Mr. Shapiro was on the phone taking questions from a top member of the vice-presidential search team. Dana Remus, according to the book, had one final thing to ask. “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?”

Mr. Shapiro balked.

“Had I been a double agent for Israel? Was she........

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