Pennsylvania Governor and presidential hopeful Josh Shapiro is doubling down on his support for Israel, despite the party’s base moving in the other direction. Joe Kent’s resignation over the Iran war highlights fractures on the right over Israel.

In the latest chapter in the Democrats’ civil war over Israel, Ilan Goldenberg, Kamala Harris’s Jewish outreach director, says her campaign was right to question Josh Shapiro about whether he had been an agent for Israel while vetting him for VP. 

The Israel lobby built its strength on the fact that its opposition was politically weak. Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro and the massive cost it took to defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush show this is no longer the case.

Support from some Pennsylvania Muslim leaders for Josh Shapiro has revealed rifts within the community and highlighted Muslim and Arab-American voters’ desire to center Palestinian rights this election.