While foreign policy and the Middle East were referenced numerous times during the debate, the suffering of the Palestinians and the toll of Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza received little mention, despite growing calls for the US to cut off military assistance to Israel.

While hosts Dana Bash and Jake Tapper mentioned that “thousands” of Palestinians had been killed, the onset of famine conditions in Gaza and the mass destruction went un-noted.

More than 90 percent of the population in the Palestinian territory has been displaced, and more than 37,000 people have been killed, most of them women and children.

Biden falsely claimed that every party but Hamas has agreed to his ceasefire proposal.

Trump, meanwhile, said Biden has become “like a Palestinian” and retorted that Israel should be allowed to “finish the job” in Gaza.

“That comment was very blatantly racist,” Ayah Ziyadeh, director of American Muslims for Palestine, told Al Jazeera in a TV interview. “Calling Biden a ‘bad Palestinian’ and using ‘Palestinian’ as a slur shows the depths of racism that exists here.”