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. Advertisement 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...
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