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Opinion: US elections: Why must voters choose between fascism and genocidal Zionism?

These days, as we get closer to D-Day for the US presidential elections, The New York Times is publishing one article after another about Donald Trump and fascism.

"John Kelly, the Trump White House's longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist," The Times reports.

"Is It Fascism?" asks another piece. Robert Paxton, a leading historian, once thought the label was overused but has now changed his mind in the face of "Trumpism".

Trump is a fascist, and given the opportunity, he will turn this country into Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, Franco's Spain - all European variations on this American pivot towards fascism.

Yet, in that same paper, you will not be able to find a single reference to the genocide that has unfolded in Palestine and Lebanon over the last 13 months - except to question and discredit this fact. And absent from any reports is that President Joe Biden, and by extension, his vice president, Kamala Harris, are chiefly responsible.

READ MORE: US elections: Why must voters choose between fascism and genocidal Zionism? Opinion by Hamid Dabashi

Supporters listen as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center on 30 October, 2024 (AFP)
Supporters listen as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center on 30 October, 2024 (AFP)