Josh Shapiro Was Targeted for Being Jewish. Will He Do Anything About It?

The Pennsylvania governor survived an anti-Semitic attack. Now he faces a choice: fold to his party’s radicals—or lead. Earlier this month, on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, 38-year-old Cody Balmer firebombed the residence of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. A search warrant indicates that the attempted murder was driven by Balmer’s fury over what the Democratic state chief executive—America’s most identifiably Jewish governor—“wants to do to the Palestinian people.” Balmer is not merely an anti-Semite and would-be domestic terrorist. He was out on bail after assaulting his estranged wife and stomping on his ten-year-old son’s broken leg....