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Meanings
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adj
hostile, prejudiced, or discriminatory toward Jewish people
The museum documents how antisemitic propaganda prepared the ground for persecution.
Thesaurus
Formed from antisemitism + -ic. German Antisemitismus was popularized in the late nineteenth century as a political label for hostility toward Jews; despite its form, antisemitic conventionally refers specifically to anti-Jewish prejudice, not hostility toward all speakers of Semitic languages.