Pennsylvania: Founded by Quakers but led by zionists

Gov. Josh Shapiro speaking in Philadelphia. 

Let's take a look at some of the leading politicians from the state of Pennsylvania - present and past.

Current Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (Democrat), has been getting lots of mainstream media lately. It matches the usual pattern how the media creates candidates for prez. He was on the short list for V-P with Kamala Harris before the last election. But his stance on Israel (he is a zionist) appeared to remove him from consideration.

Shapiro apparently told former Vice President Kamala Harris that he “flatly” would not apologize for statements he made about pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Pennsylvania. Shapiro appeared to compare campus protesters to members of the Ku Klux Klan in an interview with CNN. The program also included his service on an Israel Defense Forces base, an experience he described as being "a past volunteer in the Israeli army".

While attending the University of Rochester in 1993 Shapiro published an op-ed in the Campus Times student newspaper titled "Peace not Possible", in which he claimed that peace "will never come" to the Middle East. The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted it as follows: "Palestinians will not coexist peacefully. They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own." 

After graduating from college, Shapiro moved to Washington, D.C., where he spent six months working in the Israeli embassy's public diplomacy department beginning in April 1996. According to a Shapiro spokesperson, he worked there "to get foreign policy experience. His job largely involved educating the public about Israel."

A centrist Democrat, Shapiro has faced criticism from across the political spectrum. The political left has criticized him for his strong support of Israel, school vouchers, and corporate tax cuts.

He has supported cutting off state ties with entities that engage in boycotts of Israel, such as BDS, or of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. In 2021, after Ben & Jerry's announced that it planned to end sales in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem while seeking to continue sales in Israel through a different arrangement, Shapiro supported calls to apply Pennsylvania's anti-BDS law to Ben & Jerry's.

In 2024, according to a spokesperson, Shapiro pledged to sign a bill to block state funding of colleges and universities that engage in BDS.

Shapiro faced criticism for his remarks in a letter written by CAIR and signed by 43 Pennsylvania Muslim organizations, which said that Shapiro did not "recognize the structural root causes of the conflict" and "chose to intentionally ignore the civilian loss of life in Gaza".

In May 2024, Shapiro called for a police crackdown on the pro-Palestinian encampment at Univ of Penn, but he later said he was already aware of police plans to disband the encampment after police made arrests less than 24 hours after Shapiro's statement.

Israel PM Netanyahu gives Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) a silver pager commemorating the zionist terrorist operation against Hezbollah

US Senator John Fetterman (Democrat) from Pennsylvania ran as a man of the people but has since turned his back on those promises and become a key zionist asset to Israel. In the Senate he has unapologetically stood along side Netanyahu. 

“I’ve backed Israel through this entire thing,” Fetterman said while once appearing at the Kennedy Center. “And also, the other thing, the Iranian nuclear facilities. I was the only Democrat that supported that you have to destroy those facilities. Can you imagine if they didn’t? Iran could be acquiring a nuclear bomb within the next year?”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Sen. John Fetterman and his wife, Gisele, in Jerusalem  where he gifted the Pennsylvania Democrat a silver pager inspired by the Israeli attack against Lebanon that killed and wounded many people - including many medical staffs that use the pagers in their work. 

“You know, when that story broke I was like, ‘Oh, I love it. I love it,’” Fetterman told Netanyahu as he examined the shiny pager. 

Fetterman maintains a strong relationship with Netanyahu. “I was very supportive of the prime minister. Some people might think he’s the wrong leader, whatever. Hey, if you have a choice and our ally, a Democratic-elected leader, well, I’m definitely going to stand on that side.” 

Former US Senator Arlen Specter (a zionist) from Pennsylvania early in his political career worked for the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy, at the recommendation of Representative Gerald Ford (who later became president), who was then also one of the Commissioners. As an assistant for the commission, Specter co-wrote the justification of the "single bullet theory". 

Many believe one of the key reasons for the JFK assassination was because of his strident opposition to Israel developing nuclear weapons at the Dimona nuclear facility. Israel repeatedly lied to JFK - saying they were just creating peaceful nuclear energy. JFK didn't believe Tel Aviv and demanded they allow open inspections by the US government. 

JFK was killed soon after making these demands on Israel. JFK also supported the rights of the Palestinian people.

Arlen Specter (left) 'investigating the JFK assassination

In 1981 Spector did an interview with a Jewish newspaper entitled First Jewish Senator from Pennsylvania:

"I have a sister who has established a permanent residence in Israel. I have nephew and family living there. I very much believe that American foreign policy should strengthen the Israeli nation. I believe that because it is in the strategic interest of the United States to have a strong Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East and the strongest ally historically of the United States, and also because of the importance to the Jewish people to have a homeland which should be secure".

~ Parts of this were taken from various online articles.