Media Claim (Again) Trump, Savior of Israel, Used Antisemitic Slur
The media claim that President Donald Trump – who bombed Iran’s nuclear sites and is busy expelling anti -Semitic foreign students – used an anti -Semitic insult Thursday when he refers to “Shylocks”.
Trump used the term in a speech for supporters of Iowa after the “big and beautiful bill” in the House of Representatives Thursday. The context was the increase in the bill of the amount of the inheritance excluded from the federal succession, also known as the “death tax”, which affects certain family farms.
Trump said:
And very important for Iowa, this bill saves more than two million family farms from the so-called inheritory tax or the death tax. In other words, before Trump, you lost farms for the benefit of banks. Before Trump, you lost the farms like no one has ever been seen before. You love your children. You don’t feel so well. You die. You leave everything to your children, and they have to pay a big tax on successions, or a “death tax” as we call it, and they could not do it. They go out and borrow money and all of a sudden, the bank seizes the farm. Will not happen. You no longer have inheritance tax. You no longer have a death tax to pay. Now, it’s if you like your children. If you don’t like your children, it doesn’t matter. Just forget what I said. It will not help you. But if you love them or if you like someone you leave it, think about it. No tax on deaths, no inheritance tax, not to go to banks and loans, in some cases, a good banker and, in some cases, Shylocks and bad people. But they have removed a lot of family – they destroyed many families. But we did the opposite. So remember – for me, it’s so important.
The term “shylocks” seems to be a reference to the character of Shylock in William Shakespeare The Venice merchantA Jew who is also an avenging silver lender. The room is controversial, and some consider the character as an anti -Semitic stereotype – although the play also expresses empathy for the Jews, in certain passages.
Trump was facetious – “if you don’t like your children” – but is nevertheless accused by the traditional media of anti -Semitism, or rather the use of anti -Semitic “tropes”.
Trump said he was not aware of anti -Semitic connotations of the term.
The accusations are familiar, following a model that was created ten years ago, when Trump was accused of vulgarity for having used the term “Schlongé” to describe the defeat of Hillary Clinton during the presidential primary of the 2008 Democratic Party.
“Schlong” is a pejorative Yiddish word for “penis”.
Critics suggested that Trump of the time was not only misogynist, but also that he had a deeply anchored anti -Semitism that would reflect in his policies.
Since then, Trump has moved the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; Israeli sovereignty recognized on the heights of the Golan; And, more recently, bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, helping Israel win the 12 -day war.
In addition, the Trump administration is currently drawing federal funding from universities that have shown tolerance to anti -Semitism and expel foreign students who organized anti -Semitic demonstrations.
Many people use terms that have pejorative origins without knowing their roots – such as the use of the term “gypped” to refer to the scam, which has its origins in the word “gitan” and refers to the persecuted Roma.
Joel B. Pollak is a principal editor in Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday On Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. HE (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of Trump 2.0: The most dramatic “100 days” in presidential historyAvailable for Amazon Kindle. He is also the author of Trumpian virtues: the lessons and inheritance of the presidency of Donald Trumpnow available on audible. He was the winner of the Robert Novak former scholarship in 2018 journalism. Follow him on Twitter in @joelpollak.
