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

When Robert Harvey read the report from Maryland State Police last month alleging that a middle school student had been repeatedly targeted with anti-Semitic harassment by her classmates, the Calvert County, Md., state's attorney was deeply disturbed. —Odette Yousef, NPR, 23 Apr. 2024

As was often the case with Western officials at the time, Balfour’s apparent reverence for the Jews simultaneously drew on deep anti-Semitic prejudice. —Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

As Strategic Vision president Alexander Edwards notes, this was around the time Musk came under serious fire for a variety of comments made on X, including promoting an anti-Semitic tweet and lashing out at companies that pulled ads from the social media site. —Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2024

Musk’s polarizing presence at the top of Tesla is so unusual for a corporate leader that experts in business management grasp for comparisons: anti-Semitic fellow car-pioneer Henry Ford, perhaps, said AutoPacific chief analyst Ed Kim. —Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024

Despite decades of indoctrination in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment by their government, Iranians harbor very little hostility toward Israel. —Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2024

The district is also home to the Tree of Life Synagogue where, in 2018, a gunman killed 11 Jewish worshipers and wounded another six people in the deadliest anti-Semitic assault in U.S. history. —Susan Davis, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024

Despite past controversies — beginning with an anti-Semitic rant during his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving in 2006 — Gibson won the praises of Hollywood once again in 2016 with the release of the biographical war drama Hacksaw Ridge. —Tim Lammers, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2024

In France, when anti-Semitic thugs tried to intimidate her and some Israeli friends on the Paris subway, Miranda defiantly spoke Hebrew extra loudly. —David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024

Word History

Etymology

anti- + semitic, after German antisemitisch

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above