antisemite

American  

[an-tee-sem-ahyt, an-tahy-, -see-mahyt] / ˌæn tiˈsɛm aɪt, ˌæn taɪ-, -ˈsi maɪt /

Or anti-Semite

noun

1. a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile toward Jews.

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Spelling

See antisemitism.

Other Word Forms

• antisemitic adjective

Etymology

Origin of antisemite

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The rapper said he is “committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change” and denied that he is “a Nazi or an antisemite.”

From Los Angeles Times

“I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people,” he wrote.

From Salon

"It does not excuse what I did, though. I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people."

From Barron's

He famously said: “if the Jew didn’t exist, the antisemite would invent him.”

From Salon

Sartre argued that for the antisemite, “there is no question of building a new society, but only of purifying the one that exists.”

From Salon