A brief history of "anti-semitism"

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The word "antisemitism" has an interesting history unto itself, created by a Jewish scholar in 1860 http://www.jewishtreats.org/2015/01/the-origin-of-word-anti-semitism.html to characterize a philosopher's claims of the Aryan race's superiority to Semitic races.  "Semite" does not mean Jew, but rather any person who speaks a Semitic language (Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, etc). In 1879 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wilhelm-marr , however, the term replaced the word "Judenhass" (German for "Jew Hate") in order to present the concept of Jew hate as more scientific and credible than its old name might suggest. Since its implementation in the place of Judenhass, antisemitism has come to mean "hatred of Jews" through repetition.

Taken from:
Reevaluating Antisemitism
https://www.evanstonian.net/opinion/2019/05/23/reevaluating-antisemitism/