Former US president Donald Trump has said that “more than any other people on earth, Israel […] has to defeat” Kamala Harris, the US vice president and Democratic Party candidate, Al Jazeera reports.

“I believe that Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth if I don’t win,” Trump said.

Trump also repeated a claim he has made at similar events that senior Democratic politician Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, “is Hamas all the way”, and “is a Palestinian.”