Kamala Harris’ team asked Jewish Governor Josh Shapiro if he was an Israeli double agent, she wrote in a new memoir.

Members of Kamala Harris’ team asked Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, if he was an Israeli double agent, according to a new memoir by the potential 2028 presidential candidate.

The question came up during the 2024 presidential campaign, when Harris weighed who to choose as his running mate.

Shapiro was at the top of his list, along with Senator Mark Kelly and his last choice, Governor Tim Walz.

Now, in his book, Where we keep the lightShapiro says Harris’ team was very interested in his background.

“Was I a double agent for Israel?” He wrote, describing his surprise at the question, in a passage shown by The The New York Times.

According to him, the probe team replied, “Well, we have to ask.”

Shapiro also alleged that Harris’ team wanted to know if he had communicated with an undercover Israeli agent.

According to him, Shapiro replied, “If they were hiding, I replied, how would I know?”

He later wrote that he understood that the questioner, Dana Remus, a former White House adviser, was “just doing his job”.

However, he added that he believed that “said a lot about some of the people around the VP.”

Kamala Harris would eventually lose the 2024 election, with her opponent Donald Trump winning by a landslide. At the time, many criticized his decision to pass on Shapiro, because he is the governor of the important swing state of Pennsylvania.

Which is also seen in his book AtlanticPennsylvania’s governor bemoaned another question about Israel.

Harris’s team wanted to know if students protesting Israeli action in Gaza would back down from their fierce criticism. He told the delegates that he was sticking to his position.

“It bothered me that their questions weren’t really about substance,” he wrote. “Instead, they were questioning my ideology, my perspective, my worldview.”

He also suggested that Harris hated his time as vice president, describing it as a position with little authority.

“I was surprised by how much she disliked the role,” Shapiro wrote. “She noted that her staff of staff would give me my instructions, lamented the lack of a private bathroom in the vice president’s office, and how difficult it was sometimes not to be voiced in decision-making.”

Both Harris and Shapiro have very different accounts of their meeting during the vice presidential selection process, however.

Harris wrote in his memoirs, 107 daysThat Shapiro appears to have ambitions for more power than is normally granted to a vice president.

He also alleged that Shapiro had a “lack of discretion” during the process and that he “wanted to be in the room for every decision.”

Harris added that he has a “cautionary concern” that Shapiro “will be unable to stay in the role of number two.”

When asked by Atlantic In December 2025, about his thoughts on Harris’ accusations, Shapiro gave an angry response.

“That is complete and utter. I can tell you that her accounts are just flat-out lies,” he said.

He provides Harris with a different account of events Where we keep the lightsuggesting his comments during the vice presidential selection process were “analyzed, misrepresented and isolated by members of the vice president’s team.”

Both Shapiro and Harris are expected to be leading candidates in the 2028 race for the White House.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has also seen a surge in support, but recent polls show Harris likely to become the Democratic nominee.