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Jew-baiting
[ joo-bey-ting ]
noun
- active antisemitism, including threats, hate speech, and other forms of overt harassment targeting Jews.
Jew-baiting
noun
- active persecution or harassment of Jews
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Derived Forms
- ˈJew-ˌbaiter, noun
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Other Words From
- Jew-bait·er noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Jew-baiting1
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Example Sentences
There were restrictions on commerce, statute labor, barbarous penal laws, religious persecution and Jew-baiting.
I loathe Jew-baiting, and regard the Jew-baiter as a very unlovely person.
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.
There had been a sudden, unprecedented immigration of refugees from Russia, where Jew-baiting was then the orthodox pastime.
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