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- verb Present participle of
delegitimize .
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Examples
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These thoughtful folks should be proudly taking credit for their role in delegitimizing progressive opposition to the bill in liberal intellectual circles
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The partisan of Zion hasn’t staked this position for the convenience it lends in delegitimizing the call for a Palestinian state.
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And then there are a few hundred thousand American Jews and, intermittently, evangelicals who pipe in at times like the Gaza war to say that any criticism of Israel either is an attempt at "delegitimizing" Israel or is anti-semitic.
MJ Rosenberg: The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg Despairs About Israel MJ Rosenberg 2010
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And then there are a few hundred thousand American Jews and, intermittently, evangelicals who pipe in at times like the Gaza war to say that any criticism of Israel either is an attempt at "delegitimizing" Israel or is anti-semitic.
MJ Rosenberg: The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg Despairs About Israel MJ Rosenberg 2010
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And then there are a few hundred thousand American Jews and, intermittently, evangelicals who pipe in at times like the Gaza war to say that any criticism of Israel either is an attempt at "delegitimizing" Israel or is anti-semitic.
MJ Rosenberg: The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg Despairs About Israel MJ Rosenberg 2010
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It behooves Rabbi Goldstein to remember that it is only the barbarous killing of thousands of innocent civilians that is 'delegitimizing' Israel.
CounterPunch 2010
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The potential pitfalls with these concerns will be if the GOF continues to feel the United States is "delegitimizing" their nuclear deterrent, thus precipitating classic French obstructionism as threatened by Araud and feared by the British that could turn a valuable partner on non-proliferation into an institutional "non."
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In so doing, however, a series of U. S. governing elites have been engaged long term and big time in the worst kind of delegitimizing sophistry where Palestine is concerned.
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What she fails to mention is that a lot of the people doing the "delegitimizing" were poor white, African-American and hispanic feminists.
GlennSacks.com 2009
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And the "delegitimizing" didn't start in 1975, but at least 125 years earlier.
GlennSacks.com 2009
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