From Alfred Dreyfus to Josh Shapiro: How the ‘dual loyalty’ charge shadows Diaspora Jewry

JTA — When Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wrote in his new memoir that Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential vetting team asked whether he had ever been a “double agent” for Israel, many Jewish leaders heard something painfully familiar. “These questions were classic antisemitism,” Deborah Lipstadt, the former US special envoy on antisemitism, wrote on X, a view shared by, among others, Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League; Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s former leader, and Josh Gottheimer, the Democratic congressman from New Jersey. These critics agreed that the question put to Shapiro echoed the “dual loyalty” charge: that Jews — especially…