: 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
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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
Even worse ex-president, whose meddling in US foreign policy & virulent anti-Israel/anti-Semitic views must not be forgotten.
—Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
Arendt, who was accused of smuggling anti-Semitic literature out of the library to expose Hitler’s intentions to the West, defends her innocence with such intellectual rigor, conviction, and charm that the audience, like the interrogator, is hard put to decipher the truth.
—airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
These narratives also deflect responsibility from the far right when mass shooters — including those in Buffalo, Charleston, El Paso, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — are found to have made statements echoing anti-Semitic, homophobic, and racist rhetoric commonly associated with right-wingers.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 17 Dec. 2024
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Even worse ex-president, whose meddling in US foreign policy & virulent anti-Israel/anti-Semitic views must not be forgotten.
—Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
Arendt, who was accused of smuggling anti-Semitic literature out of the library to expose Hitler’s intentions to the West, defends her innocence with such intellectual rigor, conviction, and charm that the audience, like the interrogator, is hard put to decipher the truth.
—airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
These narratives also deflect responsibility from the far right when mass shooters — including those in Buffalo, Charleston, El Paso, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — are found to have made statements echoing anti-Semitic, homophobic, and racist rhetoric commonly associated with right-wingers.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Anti-Semitic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Semitic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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