The 100-year holy war, Kamala Harris false fascism claim and other commentary

Foreign desk: The 100-Year Holy War“For the belligerents” behind Oct 7., notes Eli Lake at The Free Press, the attack was “not about a country” but about “an ancient city”: Jerusalem.“If you listen to Hamas, they’ll tell you that there is a plot by the Jews to destroy” the Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, “and build a third Jewish Temple where it now stands.” This lie “is not about Islam or even a mosque.

Rather it is a rejection of any Jewish connection to Jerusalem.It is a rejection of any Jewish state at all.

But what has 100 years of jihad accomplished for the Palestinian people?” “The campaign to destroy the world’s only Jewish state has only extinguished the prospect of building a Palestinian one.”Conservative: Kamala’s False Fascism Claim“It’s hard to know what’s worse about Kamala Harris agreeing that Donald Trump is a fascist,” fumes Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill.Harris agreed with Charlamagne tha God’s suggestion “that Trump’s vision for America is ‘about fascism.’ ” The media elite were elated as she gave “them permission to substitute name-calling for serious debate.” Their attack not only served to “exaggerate the threat of Trumpism” but “also relativised the crimes of Nazism.” Yet while “screaming ‘fascist’ at Trump,” they’re “ignoring” the truly disturbing antisemitism on America’s streets.

“After Hamas’s pogrom against Israel,” it wasn’t Trump voters who “harassed Jewish students” or who committed “fascistic horrors” over the past year in America.“The truth is that it wasn’t Trump who made America feel like a hostile place for Jews – it was Trump haters.”From the right: Is Trump the Path to Normalcy?While “many in the Beltway view Donald Trump as the personification of dire political disruption,” Unherd’s Fred Bauer observes: “A series of recent polls suggest that many swing voters may see something else entirely in T...