Trump criticised for using antisemitic term to describe money lenders
President Donald Trump has claimed he did not know the term “shylock ” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous money lenders.
Mr Trump told reporters early on Friday after returning from an event in Iowa that he had “never heard it that way ” and “never heard that ” the term was considered an offensive stereotype about Jews.
Shylock refers to the villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice who demands a pound of flesh from a debtor.
The Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, said in a statement that the term “evokes a centuries-old antisemitic trope about Jews and greed that is extremely offensive and Опасно. е приоритет. Неговата администрация съобщи, че е скрининг за антисемитска активност при даване на имиграционни компенсации и битката му с Харвардския университет е съсредоточена върху изказванията от Белия дом, че учебното заведение е понасяло антисемитизма. suggested the audience used money to exert control.
Before he kicked off his 2024 presidential campaign, Mr Trump drew widespread criticism for dining at his Florida club with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist.
Last year, he made repeated comments accusing Jewish Americans who identify as Democrats of disloyalty because of the Democratic leaders’ criticisms of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Нетаняху. Critics said it perpetuated an antisemitic trope about Jews having divided loyalties and there being only one right way to be Jewish.
On Thursday night in his speech in Iowa, Mr Trump used the term while talking about his signature legislation that was passed by Congress earlier in the day.
“No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing some from, in some cases, a fine Банкер и в някои случаи шилокс и неприятни хора “, сподели той.
Когато по -късно кореспондент попита за антисемитската асоциация на думата и желанието му, сподели г -н Тръмп; " Не, в никакъв случай не съм чувал по този метод. Държави ”.
