Jew-baiting

[joo-bey-ting]

noun

1. active antisemitism, including threats, hate speech, and other forms of overt harassment targeting Jews.

Jew-baiting

noun

1. active persecution or harassment of Jews

Other Word Forms

• Jew-baiter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jew-baiting¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Nice words but striking given that Mr. Roberts’s video had joined Mr. Carlson in the Jew-baiting.

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Amid criticism on Friday, Mr. Roberts scrambled to list Mr. Fuentes’s odiousness, but his initial contribution was to join in the Jew-baiting.

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The Jew-baiting of everyone else is, if not excused, forgotten, which is much the same thing.

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“From the albums and interviews, the program involves rabble-rousing rage, radical aesthetics, and bootstrap capitalism, as well as a revival of the old movement’s less than humane tendencies: revolutionary suicide, misogyny, gaybashing, Jew-baiting, and the castigation of the white man as a genetic miscreant, or per Elijah Muhammad’s infamous myth of Yacub, a ‘grafted devil.’

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The Jew-baiting that characterized Trump’s campaign mattered little.

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