A couple of days ago, my Mom sent me an article which purported that Kamala Harris had agreed with a heckler who accused Israel of genocide during a campaign stop in Wisconsin last week. The video evidence, however, does not support the author's assertion and is at best inconclusive. For their part, the Harris campaign claimed the Vice-President was in agreement with the heckler regarding civilian casualties rather than the accusation of genocide.
I will say though that when Harris says, "What he is saying is real," it does open the door to ambiguity. In which case, if Harris believes Israel isn't committing genocide, then she ought to say so when confronted by someone who tells such odious lies.
Yet it is hard for me to take Republicans accusing Harris of anti-Semitism with any degree of seriousness when Republican PACs supported by Elon Musk are running ads in areas with high Arab/Muslim populations which call Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff "America's pro-Israel power couple" and that Harris "leans on her Jewish husband." If Harris is vulnerable, it is not from Jewish voters, but from Arab/Muslim voters in Michigan and the Harris campaign knows it.
For good measure, former President Trump is claiming he would have made a deal with Hamas to prevent October 7th. And what kind of deal would that be? Like the one he made with the Taliban. Whatever deal Trump would have made with Hamas, it would have sold Israel down the river.
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