variants
or less commonly antisemitism
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
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Fleishman is in Trouble explores casual Jewishness, what Taffy Brodesser-Akner describes as waking up and going to work as a Jewish person, without leaving Orthodoxy, or becoming Orthodox, or worrying about anti-Semitism.
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Anna Bruno
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Giant chronicles a turbulent time in the life of famed children’s author Dahl when he was accused of anti-Semitism in the early 1980s.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Sergey Brin The 52-year-old Google cofounder, born in Moscow in 1973, immigrated to the United States with his family at age 6 to escape Soviet anti-Semitism.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Thank you for having this hearing on anti-Semitism.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
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Anna Bruno
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Giant chronicles a turbulent time in the life of famed children’s author Dahl when he was accused of anti-Semitism in the early 1980s.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Sergey Brin The 52-year-old Google cofounder, born in Moscow in 1973, immigrated to the United States with his family at age 6 to escape Soviet anti-Semitism.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Thank you for having this hearing on anti-Semitism.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for anti-Semitism
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“Anti-Semitism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Semitism. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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