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anti-Judaism en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + Judaism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Opposition to Judaism.
   • And yet they did not form Anti-Judaism, or Anti-Gentileism, nor yet anti-sin societies, but acted upon the principle that truth was omnipotent against errour, and therefore “preached Jesus and the resurrection.” as the all-sufficient moral engine for the conversion of the world. 1836, David Meredith Reese, “Thoughts on the present aspect of the Roman Catholic Controversy”, in Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon, editors, Literary and Theological Review, volume 3, New York: Ezra Collier, page 648:
   • Anti-Judaism, as defined here, differs in several crucial respects from its more familiar cousin, antisemitism. Most fundamentally, the discourse of antisemitism asserts that Jews are inherently different from non-Jews in negative ways, while the discourse of anti-Judaism urges audiences to differentiate themselves from Jews precisely because it recognizes that the characteristics of Jews and non-Jews are often not so different after all. The simple current definition states that “Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility, or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish intuitions as Jewish).”⁴ Anti-Judaism, in contrast, seeks to motivate self-improvement through the cultivation of beliefs and practices opposed to those that the polemicist brands as Jewish. Antisemitic rhetoric specifically targets Jews; anti-Jewish rhetoric instead targets all who bear purportedly Jewish characteristics, especially non-Jews. Although antisemitism and anti-Judaism both seek to minimize the influence of Jewishness within society, antisemitism condemns what Jews are while anti-Judaism condemns what certain people do or think. 2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 4:
2. (uncountable) Synonym of anti-Semitism.

Forms

Relateds

anti-Judaic

Synonyms

anti-Semitism