Confession: I didn't know 'Shylock' was considered anti-Semitic either. Apparently it's a Shakespeare reference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/04/trump-rally-jewish-stereotype/
I tend to view such obscure--to me, anyway--categorizations as rendering so much anti-Semitic that anti-Semitism loses its meaning. But I'm on the fence with this one.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
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