They incited him to commit the crime.
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Incited
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Their speech incited you to cruelty.
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Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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Donald Trump's antisemitic rhetoric about George Soros incited the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.
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