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Sweet innocence

"After lambasting ‘shylocks’ in tax cuts speech, Trump says he didn’t know term was antisemitic""Upon his return to the White House, Trump is asked by a reporter about his use of the term Shylock, and says he “never heard that” it has links to antisemitism.“I’ve never heard it that way,” he says. “The meaning of Shylock is somebody that’s a moneylender at high rates.”“You view it differently,” he insists. “I’ve never heard that.”"https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/after-lambasting-shylocks-in-tax-cuts-speech-trump-says-he-didnt-know-term-was-antisemitic/This man is solid Teflon. Nothing sticks to him and nothing sticks in his mind.

David Ainsworth ● 17d9 Comments

Mr AinsworthBack to the archives of 2014 to seek a kind of cover for those who today are also making antisemitic comments.Not by “poor choice of words” but deliberate intent. '"Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it was a “poor choice of words” for him to use the term “Shylocks” in a recent speech.On Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, Abraham Foxman, had said the word “Shylocks” promoted an anti-Semitic stereotype.“When someone as friendly to the Jewish community and open and tolerant an individual as is Vice President Joe Biden, uses the term ‘Shylocked’ to describe unscrupulous moneylenders dealing with service men and women, we see once again how deeply embedded this stereotype about Jews is in society,” Foxman said in a statement."All the more reason to further support the Jewish community from those not so tolerant and often malevolent.

John Hawkes ● 17d

Mr BrigoWho said something antisemitic ?Full quote please.

John Hawkes ● 17d

Amazing how everyone on this forum who disagrees with you is labelled an anti-semite but the moment someone you support actually says something anti-semitic you are happy to let it just pass.

Michael Brigo ● 17d

Mr AinsworthYou go on, and on, and on....trying to prove Trump is antisemitic when in fact he is one of the staunchest allies Israel has.It's people like you Israel should be fearful of.On another matter, are you and Ms Holliday going to donate your vast collection of anti-Israel and anti-Trump web links to the National Archive at Kew ?Thence future scholars will be able to  trace how the man in the (West Putney) street was taken in by and took up the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel causes ?

John Hawkes ● 17d

He might have noticed Biden's use of it and apology in 2014."Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it was a “poor choice of words” for him to use the term “Shylocks” in a recent speech.On Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, Abraham Foxman, had said the word “Shylocks” promoted an anti-Semitic stereotype.“When someone as friendly to the Jewish community and open and tolerant an individual as is Vice President Joe Biden, uses the term ‘Shylocked’ to describe unscrupulous moneylenders dealing with service men and women, we see once again how deeply embedded this stereotype about Jews is in society,” Foxman said in a statement."https://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/joe-biden-shylocks-reaction-111053https://time.com/3394403/shylock-biden/"US: Trump quotes Shakespeare in sexual assault defense" 2016https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-trump-quotes-shakespeare-in-sexual-assault-defense/664505

David Ainsworth ● 17d

Mr Ainsworthhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/after-lambasting-shylocks-in-tax-cuts-speech-trump-says-he-didnt-know-term-was-antisemitic/Of course he could have used the excuse that his comment was not meant to be antisemitic, it is just that he is anti-Zionist, anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian ?Works on this Forum, but perhaps he would not get away with it !

John Hawkes ● 17d

Ms Holliday.I agree Michael, he does (did?) not know the connection.  And I do not think he has ever been to a Shakespeare play, let alone read any of Shakespeare's works?Unlike the intelligentsia posting on this Forum !

John Hawkes ● 17d

I agree Michael, he does (did?) not know the connection.  And I do not think he has ever been to a Shakespeare play, let alone read any of Shakespeare's works?

Ivonne Holliday ● 17d

I'd believe he didn't know the connection. You think Trump has ever been to a Shakespeare play?

Michael Ixer ● 17d