How to Use anti-Semitism in a Sentence

anti-Semitism

noun
  • The party of Franklin D. Roosevelt has an anti-Semitism problem.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Law and Justice has also tried to scrub Polish anti-Semitism from the history of the Holocaust.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023
  • You have been outspoken against the rising and troubling anti-Semitism in this country.
    CBS News, 21 Apr. 2024
  • All dismissed the fascist threat and called for appeasement, and some unashamedly embraced fascism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia.
    Kathryn S. Olmsted, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day Dictionary.com updates antisemitism Dictionary.com said one of its most notable updates was adjusting anti-Semitism to antisemitism.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Gay received intense criticism last month for her answers to lawmakers over anti-Semitism on campus following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • It has been attacked by X owner Elon Musk, who accuses the organization of going so far as to actually spread anti-Semitism himself by policing free speech with too heavy a hand.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The international Jewish organization, which was founded after Frank's murder conviction in 1913, aims to fight anti-Semitism and bias, and denounced the protest in a statement.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The decision came after accusations of plagiarism in her academic work, and a grilling by congressional lawmakers last month over her response to anti-Semitism on her campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Gay, the school’s first Black president—and, for some critics, an avatar of the identity-politics bureaucracy on college campuses—had just flubbed testimony before Congress about anti-Semitism on campus.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • India had little history of anti-Semitism: A smattering of tiny Jewish communities had prospered in the country for centuries without facing any form of persecution.
    Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2023

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