How to Use anti-Semitic in a Sentence
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In a neat trick, Eliot makes the case for Zionism both philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic at the same time.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
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In 2004, when a search on the word Jew produced an anti-Semitic site as the first result, Google declined to change anything.
—Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Not from people who play biased games in an anti-Semitic way.
—Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
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The number of anti-Semitic assaults last year was also up 26%.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
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That is not the same thing as being anti-Zionist or anti-Semitic, as some impugn.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 26 Nov. 2023
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Last fall, she was censured for her rhetoric on the Israel-Hamas war, which critics condemned as anti-Semitic.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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The Netherlands has seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents since the Gaza war began in October last year.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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For your downtime Going out 🎵🎤 Kanye doubled down on anti-Semitic lyrics.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
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Musk gets in the way of that growth quite frequently, thanks to anti-Semitic remarks and his general antics.
—Kylie Robison, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
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Rachel, who is Jewish, blows up early in the play over her sister-in-law’s anti-Semitic comments, but Bo stays tightly wound.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
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Oakland has not been immune to outright displays of anti-Semitic hate.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
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The volume of anti-Semitic posts also increased by 61%, while tweets containing slurs against gay men soared 58%.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
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In his remarks, the secretary said since last Saturday's attack, there has been an increase in anti-Semitic rhetoric in the United States and around the world.
—Luke Barr, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
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In October 2022, Adidas cut ties with Ye over his anti-Semitic remarks.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 5 Mar. 2025
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This was not Kanye spreading anti-Semitic bile before returning to his limelight.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
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The film was considered anti-Semitic due to its implication that Jewish leaders were to blame for Jesus’ death.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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The film was considered anti-Semitic due to its implication that Jewish leaders were to blame for Jesus’ death.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
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But Zoya reversed the order and attached birds’ bodies to Jewish faces, thereby invoking an old anti-Semitic trope in which Jews were portrayed as ravens.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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After the tool was released, users on 4chan, the right-wing message board, organized to create a fake version of the actor Emma Watson reading an anti-Semitic screed.
—Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
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The two-time Academy Award winner has opened up in the past about his sobriety following his 2006 anti-Semitic tirade during an arrest for drunk driving.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
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And just as his sentence was going to be commuted and he was moved to a lesser facility and things were moving in the right direction, he was sprung from his cell by an anti-Semitic mob and was lynched.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
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Both address anti-Semitic behavior of decades ago at a time in which hateful behavior toward Jews — and other minorities — is once again on the rise in America and around the world.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
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Writing during a time when anti-Semitic sentiment in France was high, Proust chose to make a friend of the narrator’s family Jewish, rather than his own family.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
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Carano was fired in February 2021 after the actress shared, then deleted, an anti-Semitic story on her Instagram.
—Germain Lussier / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
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He was temporarily locked out of his Twitter account at the time but was suspended again in December for making anti-Semitic comments and praising Hitler.
—Chloe Melas, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2023
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Meta, for example, released a chatbot in August 2022 that openly blasted Facebook and made anti-Semitic remarks.
—Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 1 June 2023
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In 2011, Galliano’s career abruptly ended after being caught on video using shocking anti-Semitic and racist insults.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
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What’s more disconcerting is that when Macdonald — who by no means confines himself to softball questions — asks the designer to speculate on the root of his anti-Semitic vitriol, he kind of shrugs.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2023
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However, to merely dismiss all of the critics out of hand as insane or intolerant or anti-Semitic would ironically run counter to the spirit of Chen’s essay itself.
—Phil Klay, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
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The attack also comes as anti-Semitic violence continues to rise nationwide.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2024
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