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

Derived Forms

• ˈJew-ˌbaiter, noun

Other Words From

• Jew-bait·er noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jew-baiting¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

“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.’

From Washington Post

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

From The Guardian

So once again, Jew-baiting will be part of the Trump playbook, just as it was in 2016 and 2018, even if Trump’s allies now proclaim that Jexodus is just around the corner.

From The Guardian

Likewise, there is also now a place in the Republican party for bullyboy politics and Jew-baiting too, even with Ivanka and Jared around.

From The Guardian