Shapiro writes that he pushed back immediately, calling the question offensive and absurd. What troubled him more than the question itself was what it suggested about the assumptions being made. He wondered whether similar scrutiny was being applied to non-Jewish contenders, or whether he was being treated as a unique risk because of his identity and his outspoken criticism of antisemitism on US college campuses after the October 7 attacks. Shapiro writes that he pushed back immediately, calling the question offensive and absurd. What troubled him more than the question itself was what it suggested about the assumptions being made. He wondered whether similar scrutiny was being applied to non-Jewish contenders, or whether he was being treated as a unique risk because of his identity and his outspoken criticism of antisemitism on US college campuses after the October 7 attacks.
