Social media explodes with the­o­ry Har­ris snubbed Gov. Shapiro as VP pick to appease anti-Israel wing of Dems

Politi­cians, pun­dits, and con­ser­v­a­tive voic­es react­ed to news of Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz being select­ed as the Demo­c­ra­t­ic vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee by claim­ing it is evi­dence that Democ­rats have a prob­lem with anti­semitism with­in the party.“The Walz selec­tion shows just how deep the Dems’ anti­semitism prob­lem runs,” Man­hat­tan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro post­ed on X after Walz was select­ed by Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris on Tues­day over Gov. Shapiro.Shapiro, who is Jew­ish, was forced to defend his stance on Israel dur­ing the VP selec­tion process after an op-ed he penned more than three decades ago, in which he wrote of being an Israeli army vol­un­teer and dis­par­aged the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple, resur­faced. Many com­men­ta­tors have made the argu­ment that Shapiro was ulti­mate­ly not select­ed because of the w …