anti-Semitic

adjective

an·ti-Se·mit·ic

ˌan-tē-sə-ˈmi-tik,

ˌan-tī-

also -ˈme-

: relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism : feeling or showing hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a cultural, racial, or ethnic group

anti-Semitic statements/rhetoric

… his critics charge he is anti-Semitic and anti-black, allegations that he denies.—

James M. Perry

Examples of anti-Semitic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The party, led by Marie Le Pen, and founded by her Holocaust-denying father, has renounced its anti-Semitic past, but for years has rallied on anti-Muslim rhetoric and described migrants as threatening, particularly to women. —

CBS News, 30 June 2024 Yet setbacks and stumbles piled up for Adidas before Gulden arrived last year, ranging from a boycott of Western brands in China to the demise of the company’s partnership with rapper Ye after his anti-Semitic comments. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024 As of April 14, there had been 96 reported anti-Semitic hate crimes this year, a 45% increase compared with the same time frame in 2023, and nine reported Islamophobic hate crimes, compared with just one in the same span in 2023, NYPD data show. —

Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 15 May 2024 Consider that, just a year ago, hardly anyone could have envisioned Prigozhin’s mercenaries marching hundreds of miles toward Moscow and meeting hardly any resistance along the way, or an anti-Semitic mob storming a Russian international airport. —

Maksim Samorukov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for anti-Semitic

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