Meanings
plural self-hating Jews
- derogatoryA Jew perceived to be harboring or supporting anti-Semitism.
[Philip] Roth had been attacked as a “self-hating jew” since he was in his twenties.
2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN1 more example
Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.
2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain's Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023Synonyms: self-loathing Jew, auto-antisemite
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA Jew perceived to be harboring or supporting anti-Semitism.
Translations
Czech sebenenávidějící Žid
- sebenenávidějící Židself-hating Jew
German selbsthassender Jude
- selbsthassender Judeself-hating Jew
Polish samonienawistny Żyd
- samonienawistny Żydself-hating Jew
Russian ненавидящий себя еврей
- ненавидящий себя еврей (nenavidjaščij sebja jevrej)self-hating Jew
Swedish självhatande jude
- självhatande judeself-hating Jew
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