(JEWISH GROUP) Yes, the attack on Gov. Shapiro was antisemitic. Here's what the left should learn from it

[Behind the Aegis]

Immediately following last weekend’s attack targeting Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, I wrote a column cautioning against jumping to the conclusion that Shapiro was targeted because he is Jewish and a vocal, if often critical, supporter of Israel. Another person who refused to stoke panic with speculation was… Gov. Josh Shapiro.

“I know that there are people out there who want to ascribe their own viewpoints as to what happened here and why,” Shapiro said following the arson attack on his home. “I choose not to participate in that.”

Now, the attacker’s motives are known: Law enforcement authorities revealed that Cody Balmer, 38, called police less than an hour after the incident, telling dispatchers the governor needed to be told that Balmer “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

Balmer said he’d had friends killed, according to police, and that “our people have been put through too much by that monster.”

To be clear: Trying to kill a Jew for supporting Israel is textbook antisemitism.

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