How to Use anti-Semitic in a Sentence

anti-Semitic

adjective
  • Not from people who play biased games in an anti-Semitic way.
    — Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • Many of the posters pushing the memes are avowedly racist and anti-Semitic.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Yes, yes, the Left has tons of its own anti-Semitic and racist baggage.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Benhamous are also dealing with anti-Semitic acts close to home.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Oakland has not been immune to outright displays of anti-Semitic hate.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • This was not Kanye spreading anti-Semitic bile before returning to his limelight.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • They were encouraged by the anti-Semitic writings of Martin Luther.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Last fall, she was censured for her rhetoric on the Israel-Hamas war, which critics condemned as anti-Semitic.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Park rangers flagged down Miami Beach officers and told them about the anti-Semitic symbols on the pride bench.
    — Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Heritage is also fighting an intramural battle over how to handle the racist and anti-Semitic strains of the right.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2025
  • For the anti-Semitic parties of the right, the Jews were the main subject, the driving force corroding national strength and health.
    — Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Some left-leaning commentators seized upon the anti-Semitic scrawlings and racial slurs and said the killer was clearly a neo-Nazi.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The messages are full of the kind of anti-Semitic and racist jokes about the Holocaust and Black people that Fuentes has made as a livestreamer.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Netherlands has seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents since the Gaza war began in October last year.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The ascent of Agartha memes and terms like goy suggests that anti-Semitic ideas now have purchase beyond Fuentes’s fellow travelers.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Later in the decade the staff was joined by a number of German physicists fleeing the Nazi regime and anti-Semitic laws in Germany.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • More than 40 percent of 18-to-22-year-olds agreed with at least one of a series of anti-Semitic statements read to them by the pollsters.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • It was followed by a pattern of persistent and severe anti-Semitic harassment of Complainants’ young daughter.
    — Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
  • Postcolonialism has been declared anti-Semitic time and again by writers of all the mainstream newspapers and media and broadcast platforms.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In 2004, when a search on the word Jew produced an anti-Semitic site as the first result, Google declined to change anything.
    — Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As these instances suggest, the line between anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist is often merely semantic.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

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