self-hating Jew
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- noun
- Slur
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[Ofensivo] judío que se odia a sí mismo
- Many people argued that his comments reflected a self-hating Jew mentality.
Examples
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Unfortunately, just as there are a bunch of self-hating Jews, White Europeans have masses.
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Hence, American liberal Jews are traitors, idiots, self-hating Jews.
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If they don't care about Israel, they are self-hating Jews in principle.
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Oh, he says he's not a self-hating Jew and look at how he talks about them in his stories.
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However, I do expect it from Jews, especially in our most perilous hour, and if they give us the finger, then in principle they are self-hating Jews.
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You're a self-hating Jew.
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Now jump at me, all you fanatic Israelis, and tell me he's a self-hating Jew.
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Or what is Hornik going to tell me? He doesn't want to offend self-hating Jews; otherwise, they might, uh, do what—vote a Jew-hater into the White House?
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He openly criticized his culture, calling himself a self-hating Jew.
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She felt like a self-hating Jew for distancing herself from her heritage.
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-hating + Jew
The adjective 'self-hating' is transparently built from 'self' + 'hating' to mean someone who hates themselves or their own identity; combined with 'Jew' it straightforwardly denotes a Jewish person who criticizes or feels shame about their Jewish identity. This is a regular adjective+noun composition following common morphological patterns and is cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can derive the meaning.
Etymology
Self-hating Jew comes from the simple image of a Jewish person who seems to hate or feel ashamed of their own group, with self-hating meaning 'hating oneself' and Jew meaning 'a Jewish person'. That's why people use it as a strong label for someone who 'criticizes or rejects their Jewish identity or traditions'.