Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism.
- n. Discrimination against Jews.
Wiktionary
- n. Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against Jews; anti-Jewism (anti-Jewishness).
- n. Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against any other Semitic people (ancient or modern), such as Samaritans, Palestinians, Arabs or Assyrians; anti-Samaritanism, anti-Palestinianism, anti-Arabism, anti-Assyrianism.
Examples
“Consider Wilhelm Marr, the German journalist, who coined in 1879 the term anti-Semitism.”
“The term anti-Semitism derives from the late nineteenth century, and research into ancient anti-Judaic sentiment dates from the same period.”
“The term anti-Semitism had not been coined yet, so it is best to call it what it was: raw and implacable Jew hatred.”
“It is not the result of the wickedness or follies of the Gentiles which we call anti-Semitism.”
“134 Wilhelm Marr, the inventor of the word anti-Semitism, agreed.”
“Someone might point out to Krauthammer that a charge of anti-Semitism, that is as thinly disguised as it is baseless, is a scurrilous slur, not an argument.”
The Huffington Post: Dennis Jett: Keeping Some From Voting Is Part of the Plan
“Etgar Lefkovits, “Obama fails to name anti-Semitism envoy,” Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2009.”
“One non-Jewish author, Hermann Bahr, called anti-Semitism “a new madness.””
“He put civil rights on the agenda in a state with a long history of bigotry and anti-Semitism.”
“Film historian Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, has described the anti-Semitism of Hollywood Jews in the 1930s in terms of a cultural holocaust: “Above all things, they wanted to be regarded as Americans, not Jews; they wanted to reinvent themselves here as new men.””
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