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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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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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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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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This was not Kanye spreading anti-Semitic bile before returning to his limelight.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
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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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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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Despite the rapper being one of the most controversial people in the industry—in the world, perhaps—and someone who has been decried by countless people for his anti-Semitic views, his latest set is performing very well.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Entertaining Jewish preeminence, the chant seemed, ironically, of a piece with an anti-Semitic slur.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
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Officials have fought back, accusing protesters of being anti-Jewish and even anti-Semitic.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
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As well as addressing questions that come up in town hall meetings and video chats, the company released an explanation when an employee who expressed anti-Semitic views on social media was fired.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
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Perhaps it was related to ex-producer Abby Grossberg’s lawsuit against the network, which alleged rampant sexism and anti-Semitic behavior behind the scenes at Carlson’s show?
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
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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
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Others argued that the essay’s authors downplayed or glossed over the Palestinian hand in the crisis, including the fecklessness of the Palestinian leadership and its toleration of anti-Semitic extremism.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
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Hamdy, an Egyptian journalist, was investigated after a report alleged that some of her reviews and tweets in Arabic expressed anti-Semitic and extremist remarks.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
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While most of Trump's attacks have lacked the racist and anti-Semitic overtones of those leveled against Merchan and Curiel, the former president has regularly attacked judges presiding over cases he has been directly or indirectly involved in.
—Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 4 Apr. 2023
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Even the secular intelligentsia banded with the ayatollah, dismissing the protests and the blatant anti-Semitic and anti-feminist character of the new leadership as a few minor quirks upon which the great revolution could not afford to dwell.
—Roya Hakakian, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2023
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A couple of the speakers referenced a website filled with anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic, and other hateful material that included what appeared to be a logo that resembles a Nazi flag.
—Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 27 Feb. 2024
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