A G.O.P.-Linked Group’s Contradictory Ads Cast Harris as Friend and Foe of Israel

A super PAC that appears to have Republican ties is trying to cast Vice President Kamala Harris in contradictory terms on Israel, pitching her as anti-Israel in a new ad that seems aimed at least partly at Jewish voters shortly after portraying her as pro-Israel in ads targeting Muslim voters.

The group, the Future Coalition PAC, is raising eyebrows with its less-than-subtle attempt to play both sides of the Democratic Party’s divide over the war in Gaza against each other.

It drew scrutiny this month for using antisemitic tropes in the ads it appeared to direct toward Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan, a battleground state. That series of ads appeared designed to remind Arab American and Muslim American voters of Ms. Harris’s pro-Israel views and her husband’s Jewish faith.

In the new ad, released on social media on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, another battleground state and one with a significant Jewish population, the super PAC accuses Ms. Harris of pandering to pro-Palestinian activists and assails her for publicly criticizing civilian casualties in the war.

“Two-faced Kamala Harris is secretly campaigning for Palestine and trying to get away with it,” the ad begins as the narrator mispronounces Ms. Harris’s given name.

Many Jewish Americans hold complex views about the war, which followed the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza. But some have been troubled by what they see as disproportionate criticism of Israel on the left — and the Pennsylvania ad seems designed to play on those concerns.