antisemitic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   hostile, prejudiced, or discriminatory toward Jewish people

   The museum documents how antisemitic propaganda prepared the ground for persecution.

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.

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