Anti-Defamation League boss blasts Kamala Harris silence amid shameful treatment of Josh Shapiro
Anti-Defamation League boss Jonathan Greenblatt blasted Kamala Harris’ silence during what he said was an antisemitic smear campaign against Pennsylvania Gov.Josh Shapiro.“No one from the White House called out the antisemitic slander campaign against Governor Shapiro.
No one from the campaign called out the antisemitic smear campaign against Governor Shapiro.No one from the DNC called out the antisemitic smear campaign against Governor Shapiro,” Greenblatt said in a wide-ranging interview with The Post this week.He called the episode “shameful.”Though Shapiro held broadly similar views on Israel to Minnesota Gov.
Tim Walz and other Democratic veep contenders — Israel-hating progressives launched a furious campaign to scuttle him.Shapiro, the popular, Jewish governor of Pennsylvania — a state the Harris campaign must win — was widely seen as the pick Republicans most feared.
But after he was smeared and snubbed, Jewish Americans — long a reliable Democratic voting bloc — will be up for grabs in the election, Greenblatt warned.“I think Jews in this moment .
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they feel the ground shifting under their feet,” he said.The ADL boss also threw a jab at “Squad” Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who he described as not been a helpful partner fighting antisemitism.
Greenblatt suggested she should be more like Democratic Rep.Ritchie Torres.
“Richie Torres has sat with Jewish college students repeatedly.Richie Torres went to Columbia .
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has AOC done that?” he said.The two pols have been in a public spat on X for days over AOC’s defense of Rep.Rashida Tlaib — who has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people.Sitting in the ADL’s midtown offices, Greenblatt reiterated that he remains committed to a two-state solution, but concedes it’s increasingly difficult to see what that looks like.
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