antisemitism
Hatred targeting Jewish people
Antisemitism is hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jewish people.
The term covers a spectrum from casual stereotyping to systematic persecution—the Holocaust being its most extreme historical expression.
Modern antisemitism may appear as conspiracy theories about Jewish control of finance or media, denial of Israel's right to exist, or outright violence against Jewish communities.
Also spelled anti-Semitism.
Systematic annihilation of a people
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- BuchenwaldNazi concentration camp
- ShoahNazi extermination of Jews
concentration camp · gas chamber · crematoria · Nuremberg · death camp · deportation · Kristallnacht · Eichmann
Violent persecution of minorities
- hate crimeOffense motivated by prejudice
- vandalismWillful property damage
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- swastikaCross with angled arms
graffiti · assault · intimidation · harassment · threat · arson · shooting · massacre
Fixed oversimplified notion
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- intoleranceUnwillingness to accept differences
- hatredIntense hostile aversion
hostility · animosity · xenophobia · othering · dehumanization · demonization · vilification · slur
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- neo-NazismRevived totalitarian racial ideology
- white nationalismIdeology favoring Caucasian dominance
- fascismUltranationalist dictatorial political system
Nazism · eugenics · racial purity · Aryan · propaganda · indoctrination · radicalization · extremism
Being barred from participation
- segregationForced separation by group
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- ghettoizationForced residential segregation
- boycottOrganized economic protest
quota · expulsion · disenfranchisement · redlining · restricted · blacklist · ostracism · Pale of Settlement
Countering harmful falsehoods
- educationSystematic development of mind
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- interfaithAcross religious boundaries
- solidarityUnity among allies
allyship · documentation · monitoring · legislation · hate speech laws · advocacy · awareness · commemoration
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- BuchenwaldNazi concentration camp
Shoah · concentration camp · gas chamber · crematoria · Nuremberg · death camp · deportation · Kristallnacht · Eichmann · yellow star
pogrom
Violent persecution of minorities
- hate crimeOffense motivated by prejudice
- vandalismWillful property damage
- desecrationViolating something sacred
swastika · graffiti · assault · intimidation · harassment · threat · arson · shooting · massacre · Pittsburgh
stereotype
Fixed oversimplified notion
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- intoleranceUnwillingness to accept differences
hatred · hostility · animosity · xenophobia · othering · dehumanization · demonization · vilification · slur · caricature
racism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- neo-NazismRevived totalitarian racial ideology
- white nationalismIdeology favoring Caucasian dominance
fascism · Nazism · eugenics · racial purity · Aryan · propaganda · indoctrination · radicalization · extremism · Holocaust denial
exclusion
Being barred from participation
- segregationForced separation by group
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- ghettoizationForced residential segregation
boycott · quota · expulsion · disenfranchisement · redlining · restricted · blacklist · ostracism · Pale of Settlement · Dreyfus affair
anti-defamation
Countering harmful falsehoods
- educationSystematic development of mind
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- interfaithAcross religious boundaries
solidarity · allyship · documentation · monitoring · legislation · hate speech laws · advocacy · awareness · commemoration · testimony
- American Jewrysynagogues, rabbis, kosher, Yiddish, Hebrew
- Polish JewsWarsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz, shtetl, Yiddish, synagogues
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- Jewish HistoryHolocaust, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
antisemitismtolerance
Willingness to accept difference
religious tolerance · pluralism · inclusivity · acceptance · multiculturalism
- antisemitic attackViolence targeting Jewish people