Peloni: This epitomizes the failure of Jewish leadership in the US. In fact, Shapiro’s failing leadership comes at a pivotal point and over a pivotal issue which will only succeed in leading to further attacks, and not just on himself or his family.
This is not integrity, it’s dishonest
Daniel Greenfield | April 21, 2025
AG Shapiro (Photo by Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA, Gov. Wolf, CC BY 2.0)
Even by the convoluted standards of politics, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Democrats are playing a strange game after the arson attack over Gaza on the governor’s mansion.
Gov. Shapiro has refused to discuss the motive for the attack even while Democrats, including supporters of campus Hamas activists like Halie Soifer, who heads the Jewish Democratic Council of America, blame Trump for an attack by one of their own people. This bait and switch depends on Shapiro keeping his mouth shut even as Dems attack Trump for not saying enough about the attack by a terrorist supporter.
What does Gov. Shapiro think about an attempt to kill his family over Gaza? Don’t ask him. Is it a hate crime? It would be inappropriate for him to comment on the matter.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said it would be inappropriate for him to label the fire last weekend at his official residence “a hate crime” — and didn’t think it was helpful for outsiders to do so either.
Speaking in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Shapiro said, “I know as a former prosecutor how important it is to follow the evidence and apply the law and to do so without fear or favor. In this case, I’m the victim of the crime. I’m not the prosecutor. The prosecutors will weigh all the different evidence, determine what the motive is.”
This is not integrity, it’s dishonesty.
Hate crimes charges would most likely be federal. Shapiro is a state official and even if the charges were brought by the state, there would be no involvement by the governor’s office. State prosecutors are fully capable of investigating the attack even if Shapiro were to condemn the perp’s stated motive.
Instead, Shapiro keeps dodging and weaving, treating the whole thing as some sort of universal problem.
“This is, sadly, a real part of our society today,” Shapiro told Stephanopoulos, “and it needs to be universally condemned, George. I don’t care if it’s coming from the left, from the right. I don’t care if it’s coming from someone who you voted for, or someone who you didn’t vote for, someone on your team or someone on the other team.”
This one ain’t coming from the right. If it were, Gov. Shapiro would have condemned it by now.
Everyone knows that this ‘both sides have problems’ stuff, whether it’s true or not, tends to come out when it’s your side doing something wrong.
Society has issues, but in this case, Gov. Shapiro is trying not to talk about what happened because condemning antisemitism and support for terrorism within his own party is a career killer.
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Check this out, One of the terrorists released recently in exchange for a few of the hostages says that the prisons in which he was held for many years–he was taken prisoner by the IDF in 2011–was “like a summer camp”for years before Ben-Gvir became security minister. He says that the inmates and the Israeli staff were “all on the same page” and “like brotherts,”The terrorist inmates were allowed to elect their own “representative” or “spokesman” who was the de facto commander of the prison, obeyedby the Israeli staff as well as the inmates. He says things have only begun to get tough since Ben-Gvir became security minister, and revoked some of th eprisoners’ priveleges. But even Ben-Gvir has revoked all of their priveleges.
Shapiro has hinted strongly in his public statements that he believes antisemitism was at least one of the causes of the attack on him. He made a point of saying that the attack on him shortly after he had celebrated the Passover seder with his family and many guests. The director of security for the governor’s office was more explicit about this. He said that “religious bias” was “at least one of the causes for the attack.” He pointed out that the arsonist and would-be murder is a strong advocate for “Palestine” and has described Israel as “the enemy” and/or “his enemy” or “the enemy of the human race.”