“The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that fights antisemitism, is denouncing Vice President Joe Biden for deploying what they called a “medieval stereotype” about Jews.

Biden used the term Tuesday while at a conference hosted in Washington, D.C., by the Legal Services Corporation, a group that provides legal counsel to those who cannot afford to pay for it. He was offering an anecdote about his son Beau who he said saw U.S. veterans taken advantage of by bankers.

“People would come to [Beau],” VP Biden said, “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 these women and men while overseas.””*

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur (http://twitter.com/cenkuygur) breaks it down.

* Read more here from Eddie Scarry / Mediaite:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/joe-bidens-use-of-shylocks-draws-anger-from-jewish-group/