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    If a Democrat used the term Trump did, said Matt Duss, executive vice president at CIP, “Jonathan Greenblatt would be knocking people over to get in front of a camera to condemn them by name, but it was Trump so it’s just a general public service announcement.”

    That’s not true…

    If it was a progressive, sure, but not any dem.

    That’s not even a hypothetical…

    The Vice President should have been more careful,” ADL Director Abe Foxman said on Tuesday in a statement denouncing Biden’s comment.

    “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,” he said.

    The vice president had been describing his son’s experiences in the US military in Iraq at an event marking marking the 40th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation.

    “That’s one of the things that he finds was most in need when he was over there in Iraq for a year,” Biden said, according to CNN, “that people would come to him and talk about what was happening to them at home in terms of foreclosures, in terms of bad loans that were being…I mean these Shylocks who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas.”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-slams-biden-for-shylock-remark/

    Can always count on ole corn pop to let us know how people would react to a Dem saying some stupid shit only a Republican would say.

    But Israel (and hence the ADL) don’t give a fuck about the letter by a politicians name, they care about what they can get out of them, that’s it.