Jew-baiting

[ joo-bey-ting ]

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

Origin of Jew-baiting

1
First recorded in 1890–95

Other words from Jew-baiting

  • Jew-bait·er, noun

Words Nearby Jew-baiting

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How to use Jew-baiting in a sentence

  • There were restrictions on commerce, statute labor, barbarous penal laws, religious persecution and Jew-baiting.

    Blood and Iron | John Hubert Greusel
  • I loathe Jew-baiting, and regard the Jew-baiter as a very unlovely person.

    Windfalls | (AKA Alpha of the Plough) Alfred George Gardiner
  • That he was also a man of resolution is shown by an incident of the time when Jew-baiting was having its sorry day in Denmark.

  • Such crises as would follow everywhere in consequence of Jew-baiting would rather be prevented by the carrying out of my plan.

    The Jewish State | Theodor Herzl
  • There had been a sudden, unprecedented immigration of refugees from Russia, where Jew-baiting was then the orthodox pastime.

British Dictionary definitions for Jew-baiting

Jew-baiting

noun
  1. active persecution or harassment of Jews

Derived forms of Jew-baiting

  • Jew-baiter, noun

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