‘Eat Me Last’: Josh Shapiro Makes 2028 Calculation To Indulge The Israel-Hating Left

Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro wants the White House. On Wednesday, that ambition was on full display as he tap-danced around a direct question about his party’s newest crop of Israel-bashing socialists — brushing off the widening rift as a distraction from his own brand of buttoned-up “pragmatism.”

Pressed by MS NOW’s Willie Geist on whether hard-Left firebrands out of New York and Colorado risk becoming the face of the Democratic Party nationally, Shapiro punted.

“Do you worry, though, governor, about some of these candidates in these high-profile races in New York and now in Colorado will be elevated as representative of Democrats nationally with some of their extreme views?” Geist asked.

“I mean, look — here in Pennsylvania, folks know what pragmatism results and getting stuff done looks like, because they see me, they see other Democrats who are doing that in our commonwealth. Look, I want to work with anyone to get stuff done,” Shapiro replied.

Shorter Josh Shapiro to the Jew-hating communists who've taken over the Democrat Party: Please, please, eat me last pic.twitter.com/lmJdXJ6WkW

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 1, 2026

Shapiro refused to confront the elephant — or camel — in the room.

That elephant has a name, or rather several. Brad Lander, the self-styled “liberal Zionist” who in his victory speech accused Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid” and declared that Americans were “paying for Netanyahu’s wars with our tax dollars.”

New York U.S. House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier showed up to a Times Square rally the day after Hamas butchered 1,200 Israelis — October 8, 2023 — and later refused to condemn the attacks at a candidate forum, instead lecturing moderators about “75 years of occupation.” She spent her New York primary campaign branding Israel an “apartheid state.”

Another New York U.S. House candidate, Claire Valdez, marched with the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace for years, reportedly co-sponsored Mamdani’s “Not on Our Dime!” legislation targeting charities that fund West Bank settlements, and falsely accused her opponent, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, of being bankrolled by AIPAC — a claim her own campaign finance filings blew up.

And now Colorado’s Melat Kiros, fresh off toppling 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette while calling for a total arms embargo on the Jewish state and refusing to label the Boulder firebombing an act of antisemitism.

All were cheered on by Mayor Mamdani’s growing socialist machine. None drew so much as a syllable of pushback from Shapiro on air.

It’s not hard to see why. Shapiro, still nursing the sting of getting passed over for Kamala Harris’s ticket in 2024 — a snub widely chalked up to Democratic squeamishness about his faith — knows exactly how combustible this topic is for a man eyeing 2028. Distance yourself too loudly from the socialist wing and risk the base. Cozy up and risk everything else.

Except Shapiro’s own recent Israel commentary has hardly been a profile in courage. On the “All-In” podcast, he accused Benjamin Netanyahu of “leading around” and “bullying” Trump into confronting Iran — the same “bully” label he’s slapped on Trump himself over Venezuela and Canada, but somehow reserved for Israel’s prime minister when Tehran was the target. Critics, including the Zionist Organization of America, called the framing straight out of the “Jews control America” playbook — a particularly bitter irony for a governor whose own home was firebombed on the first night of Passover last year.

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck summed up Shapiro’s comments well when he wrote, “Josh Shapiro to the Jew-hating communists who’ve taken over the Democrat Party: Please, please, eat me last.”