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Former President Donald Trump has called the upcoming US election the “most important” in Israel’s history, stating that the Jewish state will be “eradicated,” “wiped off the face of the earth” and “cease to exist” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidential election.

Speaking at an event on anti-Semitism in the US, Trump appeared to be preoccupied with what he described as ingratitude from Jewish voters, who he said should support him more because of his views on Israel.

“You have to beat Kamala Harris more than any other nation in the world,” Trump said, addressing Jewish voters in the audience.

“And I have never said this before: Israel, more than any other nation on Earth, must overcome her.”

He then promised to “make Israel great again.”

Amy Spitalnick, executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and a former Democratic Party aide in New York, accused Trump of using “a speech on anti-Semitism as an opportunity to embrace anti-Semitic stereotypes and attack the American Jewish community.”

“Treating Jews and Israel as political footballs makes Jews, Israel, and all of us less safe,” Spitalnick added.

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