Antisemitism is defined as hostility and prejudice toward Jews as well as taking discriminatory action towards Jewish people. Some consider antisemitism to be a form of racism.
The word antisemitism finds its roots in the German wordantisemitisch,first used in 1860 by Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider, in his work regarding false ideas of "Semitic races" in comparison to "Aryan races." However, the discriminatory ideas and actions towards Jews have existed since long before the term was coined.
Early incidents of antisemitism and anti-Jewish persecution include the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290, the persecution of Jews across Europe during the Black Death from 2348 - 1351, and the Spanish Inquisition and expulsion from Spain in 1492.
The 20th century saw both the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews, and the expulsion of Jews from countries across the Middle East, leading to the displacement of approximately 850,000 Mizrahi Jews.
In recent years both Europe and the US have seen a steady increase in antisemitic incidents, and 90% of Jews in the European Union have said that they feel this is a serious problem.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees' National Executive Board passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for General Vice President and Ontario CUPE President Fred Hahn to resign.
Rochel Leah Taktuk reported a threatening pizza delivery to the FBI, escalating tensions in the Boteach-Owens feud over antisemitism.
Museum leaders had announced the exhibit would be reconfigured and presented to the public at a different venue later in the summer.
Emhoff is the first Jew among any of the four White House principals (the president, vice president, and their respective spouses).
"After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC," Foxman wrote.
In order to indeed keep football as a force for good and politics out of sport, FIFA must once and for all give a ‘red card’ to Jibril Rajoub’s relentless campaign of hate against Israel.
Joe Biden’s critics are attacking him for saying pro-Palestinian protesters ‘have a point.’ His Jewish backers aren’t concerned.
Emhoff said Harris comes with him to synagogue for high holiday services, and he goes to church with her for Easter, and spoke about combating antisemitism and other forms of hate.
America has a blind spot when it comes to antisemitism, and too many people still don’t see it as the urgent threat that it is.
The threats predated a recent spree of bomb threats against Jewish institutions, mainly synagogues, that began in the summer of 2023.
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