How to Use anti-Semitic in a Sentence

anti-Semitic

adjective
  • 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
  • Not from people who play biased games in an anti-Semitic way.
    Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • The number of anti-Semitic assaults last year was also up 26%.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • That is not the same thing as being anti-Zionist or anti-Semitic, as some impugn.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 26 Nov. 2023
  • For your downtime Going out 🎵🎤 Kanye doubled down on anti-Semitic lyrics.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Rachel, who is Jewish, blows up early in the play over her sister-in-law’s anti-Semitic comments, but Bo stays tightly wound.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Oakland has not been immune to outright displays of anti-Semitic hate.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This was not Kanye spreading anti-Semitic bile before returning to his limelight.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The film was considered anti-Semitic due to its implication that Jewish leaders were to blame for Jesus’ death.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • But Zoya reversed the order and attached birds’ bodies to Jewish faces, thereby invoking an old anti-Semitic trope in which Jews were portrayed as ravens.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meta, for example, released a chatbot in August 2022 that openly blasted Facebook and made anti-Semitic remarks.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Colleges have reported both anti-Semitic and Islamophobic threats against students and staff.
    Steph Solis, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Entertaining Jewish preeminence, the chant seemed, ironically, of a piece with an anti-Semitic slur.
    Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Officials have fought back, accusing protesters of being anti-Jewish and even anti-Semitic.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • And Friday, a Texas man identified by federal prosecutors as a member of an anti-Semitic hate group charged with threatening to lynch and kill Nashville's district attorney.
    ABC News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • 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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