AbstractAn antisemitic curse is essentially an amplified form of a threat, since it bases its violent desire on the explicit or implicit intervention of a higher power (also in the form of destiny, fate, predestination, cosmic justice) and is thus operating on a supra-individual level. A curse expresses a wish for misfortune to someone, or more specifically a wish for something unpleasant or violent to happen to a person/group, up to a death wish. Similar to insults and threats, curses contain a negative emotional value and realise a form of verbal violence, as the speech act hints at a harmful event in the future: pending harm is invoked. Jews, Israelis, as well as the State of Israel or Zionism can all be targets of an antisemitic curse.