Josh Shapiro Says Kamala Campaign Asked if He Was a ‘Double Agent for Israel’ During VP Vetting

Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has alleged that aides to then–Vice President Kamala Harris asked him whether he had ever worked as a “double agent for Israel” during the vetting process to become her running mate in the 2024 presidential election, according to his forthcoming memoir, as reported by The New York Post.

In “Where We Keep the Light,” set for release on Jan. 27, Shapiro recounts being questioned by former Biden White House counsel Dana Remus while Harris’ campaign was considering potential vice presidential nominees.

Shapiro, who is Jewish, wrote that Remus directly asked him whether he had ever acted as a “double agent for Israel,” a question he said he found offensive.

“Shapiro, who is Jewish, details a contentious vetting process in which Harris’s team focused intensely on his views on Israel — so much so that at one point, he wrote, he was asked if he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government” https://t.co/MIJ0VLmOye via @NYTimes

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) January 19, 2026

“Well, we have to ask,” Remus responded, according to Shapiro’s account in the book.

The New York Times, which obtained an advance copy of the memoir, reported that Remus followed up by asking whether Shapiro had ever “communicated with an undercover agent of Israel.”

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“If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?” Shapiro wrote.

Shapiro, 52, is widely viewed by political observers as a possible contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

In his book, he suggests the line of questioning reflected long-standing antisemitic tropes implying that Jewish politicians are more loyal to Israel than to the United States.

While Shapiro said he did not blame Remus personally, writing that she was “just doing her job,” he added that the episode “said a lot about some of the people around the VP.”

“I wondered,” Shapiro wrote, “whether these questions were being posed to just me — the only Jewish guy in the running — or if everyone who had not held a federal office was being grilled about Israel in the same way.”

According to Shapiro, Harris herself later questioned him about his public response to antisemitic demonstrations on college campuses following the Hamas terror attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Harris asked whether he would “be willing to apologize” for comments he had made criticizing some of the protests.

Shapiro said he declined.

“I believe in free speech, and I’ll defend it with all I’ve got,” he wrote, according to the Times. “Most of the speech on campus, even that which I disagreed with, was peaceful and constitutionally protected. But some wasn’t peaceful.”

The memoir also revisits tensions between Shapiro and Harris that became public after Harris released her own campaign book, “107 Days,” last year.

In that book, Harris described Shapiro as focused on the trappings of the vice presidency, claiming he asked how many bedrooms were in the official residence at the Naval Observatory and whether the Smithsonian would lend Pennsylvania art for display.

Harris also suggested Shapiro would have wanted to be “in the room for every decision” if he had been selected as her running mate.

Harris ultimately chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential nominee.

The Democratic ticket went on to lose both the Electoral College and the national popular vote, marking the first time in 20 years that a Democratic nominee failed to win either.

When asked last month by The Atlantic about Harris’ portrayal of him, Shapiro reacted sharply.

“She wrote that in her book?” he said.

“That’s complete and utter bulls**t. I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”

“She’s trying to sell books and cover her ass,” Shapiro added, before retracting part of the remark as “not appropriate.”

“Where We Keep the Light” is scheduled to be released Jan. 27.

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