variants
or less commonly antisemitism
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
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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.
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Thank you for having this hearing on anti-Semitism.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Such a reframing also points toward what a genuine fight against anti-Semitism might entail.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Also, some of it is going to pay UCLA’s $6 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty over anti-Semitism on campus and the university’s insanely hands-off reaction to the takeover of the school grounds by a tent city of pro-Palestinian protesters.
—Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Thank you for having this hearing on anti-Semitism.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Such a reframing also points toward what a genuine fight against anti-Semitism might entail.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Also, some of it is going to pay UCLA’s $6 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty over anti-Semitism on campus and the university’s insanely hands-off reaction to the takeover of the school grounds by a tent city of pro-Palestinian protesters.
—Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Anti-Semitism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Semitism. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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