anti-Semitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntɪˈsɛmɪˌtɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈsɛmɪˌtɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌæntaɪˈsɛmɪˌtɪzəm/
Forms: form: anti-Semitisms
form: antisemitism
form: anti-semitism
Etymology: From German Antisemitismus. It is typically said that German political agitator Wilhelm Marr invented the term to replace Judenhaß (literally “Jew-hatred”) to make hatred of the Jews seem rational and sanctioned by scientific knowledge; Marr founded the Antisemitenliga ("Anti-Semites' League") in 1879, used the terms Semitismus and Antisemiten in his 1879 and 1880 pamphlets Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum and Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum, and used Antisemitismus at least as early as his 1885 pamphlet Lessing contra Sem. The related term antisemitisch (“anti-semitic”) was first used in 1860, by Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider. See Wikipedia's article on the etymology and usage of the term.
The term is superficially/synchronically equivalent to anti- + Semitism (see Semite), for which reason it is rarely extended to cover prejudice against any Semitic people, or against adherents of any of the religions that originated among the Semitic peoples (the Abrahamic religions). See the usage notes.
Senses: examples: text: Антисемитизмом называется распространение вражды к евреям. Когда проклятая царская монархия доживала свое последнее время, она старалась натравить темных рабочих и крестьян на евреев. Царская полиция в союзе с помещиками и капиталистами устраивала еврейские погромы. Ненависть измученных нуждой рабочих и крестьян помещики и капиталисты старались направить на евреев. И в других странах приходится видеть нередко, что капиталисты разжигают вражду к евреям, чтобы засорить глаза рабочего, чтобы отвлечь их взоры от настоящего врага трудящихся — от капитала.
ref: 1969 [1919], Lenin, V. I., “О погромной травле евреев”, in В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений, volume 38, pages 242-243; English translation from “Anti-Jewish Pogroms”, in George Hanna, transl., Lenin’s Collected Works, volume 29, translation of original in Russian, 1974, pages 252 - 253:
roman: Antisemitizmom nazyvajetsja rasprostranenije vraždy k jevrejam. Kogda prokljataja carskaja monarxija doživala svoje posledneje vremja, ona staralasʹ natravitʹ temnyx rabočix i krestʹjan na jevrejev. Carskaja policija v sojuze s pomeščikami i kapitalistami ustraivala jevrejskije pogromy. Nenavistʹ izmučennyx nuždoj rabočix i krestʹjan pomeščiki i kapitalisty staralisʹ napravitʹ na jevrejev. I v drugix stranax prixoditsja videtʹ neredko, što kapitalisty razžigajut vraždu k jevrejam, štoby zasoritʹ glaza rabočevo, štoby otvlečʹ ix vzory ot nastojaščevo vraga trudjaščixsja — ot kapitala.
text: Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner has asked all citizens to wear the kippah in solidarity with the Jewish community, in the run-up to planned anti-Israel protests Saturday.
ref: 2019 May 28, Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, “Germans urged to wear Jewish skullcap ahead of anti-Israel protests”, in CNN:
text: It isn’t surprising that American Jews fear far-right anti-Semitism more than anti-Semitism from any other source: the Anti-Defamation League has found that it is the source of the vast majority of ideologically motivated extremist violence in the U.S.
ref: 2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:
synonyms: anti-Jewishness
anti-Jewism
anti-Judaism
antijudaism
Jew-hate
Jew-hatred
Jewhatred
Jewmania
Judeophobia
antonyms: anti-anti-Semitism
Jewmania
Judeophilia
qualifier: narrower sense
glosses: Prejudice, discrimination, hostility or political or religious opposition directed against ethnic or religious Jews or against Judaism; antijudaism; judeophobia.
examples: text: But Israel's policy of anti-semitism against Palestinians was not to the liking of India.
ref: 1986, Akhileshwar Singh, Political leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, page 228:
text: Debate on Middle East issues is limited by what can only be seen as anti-Arab racism (itself a form of racist anti-semitism, since Arabs are semitic peoples), based on a severe lack of information.
ref: 1991 April 6, Steve Rose, “A Human Drama”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: At this university, a faculty member has even gone so far as to declare Zionism a form of anti-Semitism against Palestinians.
ref: 2002, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, numbers 1-39, page 36:
text: Bluntly put: if you want to end today's "anti-Semitism" against Jews, end Zionism's "anti-Semitism" against Palestinians.
ref: 2003, Jeffrey St Clair, The Politics of Anti-Semitism, page 41:
qualifier: broader sense
glosses: Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against any Semitic people (ancient or modern), such as Samaritans, Palestinians, Arabs or Assyrians.
raw_tags: in anti-Israel discourse
Synonyms: anti-Semiticism
Related terms: anti-semite
anti-Semite
antisemite
anti-semitical
anti-Semitical
antisemitical
anti-Semitically
anti-semitically
antisemitically
anti-semitic
anti-Semitic
antisemitic
anti-shemite
anti-Shemite
antishemite
anti-shemitical
anti-Shemitical
antishemitical
anti-shemitically
anti-Shemitically
antishemitically
anti-shemitic
anti-Shemitic
antishemitic
anti-Zionism
Islamophobia
anti-Sunnism
anti-Shi'ism
nationalism
tribalism
racism
xenophobia