antisemitism

Noun

anti-Semitism (countable and uncountable, plural anti-Semitisms)

1. (narrower sense) Prejudice, discrimination, hostility or political or religious opposition directed against ethnic or religious Jews or against Judaism; antijudaism; judeophobia.
   • 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...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....

   Synonyms:

   anti-Jewishness, anti-Jewism, anti-Judaism, antijudaism, Jew-hate, Jew-hatred, Jewhatred, Jewmania, Judeophobia

   Antonyms:

   anti-anti-Semitism, Jewmania, Judeophilia

2. (nonstandard, often, proscribed, rare, broader sense) Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against any Semitic people (ancient or modern), such as Samaritans, Palestinians, Arabs or Assyrians.
   • But Israel's policy of anti-semitism against Palestinians was not to the liking of India.1986, Akhileshwar Singh, Political leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, page 228