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Trump uses antisemitic slur in victory rally
The US president insisted he did not know the word was offensive to Jewish people
Before his re-election last year, US President Donald Trump promised to combat what he called a wave of antisemitic sentiment in the US. (AP pic)
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump used an antisemitic slur during a rally in Iowa as he celebrated passage of his marquee spending bill but insisted he did not know the word was offensive to Jewish people.
“No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks and bad people,” Trump told the crowd Thursday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.
The term “shylock” is borrowed from William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” The tale features a Jewish character, who is portrayed as a ruthless moneylender demanding “a pound of flesh” from a merchant unable to repay a loan.
The word refers to loan sharks and has long been considered offensive, playing on stereotypes of Jews and greed.
The Trump controversy echoes a similar incident in 2014 when then-vice-president Joe Biden used the term while describing exploitative lenders. Biden later apologised, calling it “a poor choice of words”.
“We see once again how deeply embedded this stereotype about Jews is in society,” Abraham Foxman, then-director of a Jewish activist group, the Anti-Defamation League, said at the time.
When asked about his use of the term after he got off Air Force One returning to Washington, Trump said he has “never heard that” the word could be considered antisemitic.
He added “I’ve never heard it that way. The meaning of shylock is somebody that’s a money lender at high rates. You view it differently. I’ve never heard that.”
Daniel Goldman, a Democratic US congressman from New York, called Trump’s remarks “blatant and vile antisemitism, and Trump knows exactly what he’s doing”.
“Anyone who truly opposes antisemitism calls it out wherever it occurs – on both extremes – as I do,” Goldman wrote on X.
Before his re-election last year Trump promised to combat what he called a wave of antisemitic sentiment in the US.
Since taking power his administration has attacked major universities that saw protests over the war in Gaza, accusing the schools of allowing antisemitism and support for the Palestinian rebel group Hamas.
“No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks and bad people,” Trump told the crowd Thursday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.
The term “shylock” is borrowed from William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” The tale features a Jewish character, who is portrayed as a ruthless moneylender demanding “a pound of flesh” from a merchant unable to repay a loan.
The word refers to loan sharks and has long been considered offensive, playing on stereotypes of Jews and greed.
The Trump controversy echoes a similar incident in 2014 when then-vice-president Joe Biden used the term while describing exploitative lenders. Biden later apologised, calling it “a poor choice of words”.
“We see once again how deeply embedded this stereotype about Jews is in society,” Abraham Foxman, then-director of a Jewish activist group, the Anti-Defamation League, said at the time.
When asked about his use of the term after he got off Air Force One returning to Washington, Trump said he has “never heard that” the word could be considered antisemitic.
He added “I’ve never heard it that way. The meaning of shylock is somebody that’s a money lender at high rates. You view it differently. I’ve never heard that.”
Daniel Goldman, a Democratic US congressman from New York, called Trump’s remarks “blatant and vile antisemitism, and Trump knows exactly what he’s doing”.
“Anyone who truly opposes antisemitism calls it out wherever it occurs – on both extremes – as I do,” Goldman wrote on X.
Before his re-election last year Trump promised to combat what he called a wave of antisemitic sentiment in the US.
Since taking power his administration has attacked major universities that saw protests over the war in Gaza, accusing the schools of allowing antisemitism and support for the Palestinian rebel group Hamas.
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ReplyDeleteHe feeds them red meat every now and then.
Confirm. Those who use this word is an anti-Semitic racist bigot.
ReplyDeleteGAZA GENOCIDE DEMANDS IT
Deleteyaloh, those meeting zionists r all shylock trace infested humanoid animals.
DeleteTheir sycophants too.
Confirm. Ktemoc was and is an anti-Semitic racist bigot.
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DeleteIsaac made the proper response for Oct 7 rape, murder and kidnap of civilians.
ReplyDeleteWhat other response could there be?
Ayam waiting for anti-Semite, racist bigot reply.
before Oct 07 shailoks have been murdering Palestinians, stealing their land and possessions
DeleteSampah.
DeleteFor more than a thousand years Ishmaels have been murdering Isaacs and stealing their land and possessions. From Morocco in the west to Iran in the east. They suffered many pogroms and had no choice but to balik kampung.
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Walau-eh, mfer u r using the same argument as that zionist UN representative in showing the Bible as the proof for the right of Europe rejected xionists in the land of Levant!
DeleteThe zionist grandmother's fairytale is yr 'authenticated' read of fart. Wow………
Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite.
ReplyDeleteThis is typically a mfering zionist monopolized reference used in advancing the zionist agenda. Likening to holocaust is purely applied to Jewish final solution enacted by the Nazis Germany.
A semite is traditionally a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, or Aksumites.
So to be a antisemite, means one is prejudice against these group of people. Palestinians included.
Mmm… _those mfering Europe rejected zionists habe so little por zilch Jewish ancestry that to group them as semite is purely an academic oversight done by those zionism infested dickheads.
The actual practical meaning of words is defined by usage, not pedantic ancient arguments. That is why English is such a dynamic living language, not like the rigid French.
DeleteFor 2,000 years until the 19th Century , the only Semitic people ordinary Europeans came into daily contact with were Jews.
So by definition of usage in English , antiSemitism is hostility and prejudice against Jews.
Every language has an etymological origin. Words too, even if they r been consistently evolved through time.
DeleteAntisemitic, Holocaust etc etc have been hijacked by the zionists to use monopolistically to describe Jewishness.
It's a play of sopo-political opportunities in extracting the blood credits the ignorant Jews had accumulated in WWII.
Simple as that!
I think the word “genocide” has been hijacked by Ishmael who number 2 billion and growing rapidly but the world use it on Isaacs who number only 15 million and number of followers have been flat for many decades. Very aneh.
DeleteUnlike holocaust, antisemitism, genocide still retains its general meaning of none race specified.
DeleteMfer, read more to do yr f*cling zionist rant.
Ayam still waiting for answer.
ReplyDeletewhat answer that u couldn't find in ur wet dream?
DeleteIshmael kicked out all Isaacs from Arab countries for hundreds of years. Genocide. But no one protested.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/1COVgAM1bRY?feature=shared
Sampah grandmother's fairytale of fart, NO, mfer?
DeleteName ONE Isaac settlement that was “stolen” from Arabs pre-1947. Bet you can’t.
ReplyDeleteCome on anti-semites. NAME ONE.
https://youtube.com/shorts/a3CNMHabxrE?feature=shared
mfer, keep continuing yr antisemitic diggings. There r more!
DeleteBTW, in Arabs pre-1947, there were zilch Europe rejected zionists in those land.