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  • adjective From which Jews are excluded

Etymologies

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German

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Examples

  • An act that even handed 'judenrein' territory to fascist murderers who worship the ground * itler walked upon and certainly crave the genocide of all Jews.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • As for the current charges that the Israelis are “occupying Arab Jerusalem”, there was no “Arab Jerusalem”, except that, for the sole period of 1948 through 1967, the Jordanians made the part of Jerusalem they annexed “judenrein” (free of Jews), violated all Jewish ownership of residences and shrines, and tried to eradicate signs of Jewish history (including desecrating Jewish cemeteries that were centuries old.)

    Matthew Yglesias » Ehud Barak: Peace or Apartheid 2010

  • Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

    PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews 2011

  • Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

    PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews 2011

  • When they captured any part of mandatory Palestine, they killed or expelled all Jews, destroyed synagogues, and kept their conquered lands judenrein.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Strange Thing About the Controversy Over Jerusalem 2010

  • PA spokesmen who continue to call for Israel's eventual destruction and a judenrein West Bank?

    David Harris: The New York Times and Israel David Harris 2011

  • PA spokesmen who continue to call for Israel's eventual destruction and a judenrein West Bank?

    David Harris: The New York Times and Israel David Harris 2011

  • In the absence of the Palestinian factions, who are too divided to enter into talks with Israel, President Obama is de facto negotiating on their behalf and making the demand that they would make: that any future Palestinian state be judenrein.

    Must Palestine Be Judenrein? 2009

  • PA spokesmen who continue to call for Israel's eventual destruction and a judenrein West Bank?

    David Harris: The New York Times and Israel David Harris 2011

  • In the absence of the Palestinian factions, who are too divided to enter into talks with Israel, President Obama is de facto negotiating on their behalf and making the demand that they would make: that any future Palestinian state be judenrein.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

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