As though he were a modern-day Antonio from The Merchant of Venice, President Biden is surrounding himself with people who hate Jews.

His nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Sarah Margon, republished with approval an excerpt from a Peter Beinart article (“I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State”) which called for one state and the destruction of Israel. Here’s Shylock reminding President Biden, in the guise of Antonio, of his many public insults:

Shylock: “Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.
Well then, it now appears you need my help…”

Meanwhile, back at the White House, Maher Bitar, who was pictured dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid” is now Biden’s Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council. More Shylock:

“Well then, it now appears you need my help:
Go to, then; you come to me, and you say
‘Shylock, we would have moneys:’ you say so;
You, that did void your rheum upon my beard
And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
Over your threshold: moneys is your suit
What should I say to you? Should I not say
‘Hath a dog money? is it possible
A cur can lend three thousand ducats?’…”

And let’s not forget that Hady Amr, who described being “inspired by the Palestinian intifada” is now Biden’s point man on the conflict between Israel and the terrorists fighting to destroy the Jewish State. More Shylock:

” Or shall I bend low and in a bondman’s key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
‘Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;
You spurn’d me such a day; another time
You call’d me dog; and for these courtesies
I’ll lend you thus much moneys’?”

Oh, and there’s also Reema Dodin, Biden’s Deputy White House Legislative Director, had argued that, “suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people.” And here is Biden’s, I mean Antonio’s, insolent answer to Shylock’s reasonable objections:

Antonio: “I am as like to call thee so again,
To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
But lend it rather to thine enemy…”

The traditional view of Merchant is that, while it represents an advance on the blatant Jew hatred of Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, it is still tinged with anti-Semitism. I disagree. The only thing anti-Semitic about The Merchant of Venice is the audience it originally played to, and the audiences that watched it for another 400 years thereafter. The play is actually a critique, and a biting one, of the aristocratic merchant class of Renaissance Venice.

Well, we have an aristocratic merchant class in spades, in the form of a globalist oligarchy whose dominating position is enforced by the tech titans and their surveillance state. And our left-wing and democrat administrations have been reflexively Jew hating since at least Jimmy Carter. Why?

If your goal is to strengthen the primacy of the government, you’ll naturally want to undercut the concept of the individual. (It takes a village. You didn’t build that, etc.) So any system, especially a time-honored one like Judaism, that emphasizes the value of each human life based on, and only on, our descent from God, will be a bit of a roadblock. Biden intends to blast through those roadblocks and build back, in his twisted and failing vision, better.