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Comment by Aloisius

2 years ago

The difference between "Antisemitism" and "anti-Semitism" is merely stylistic. Both have been in use in English since 1880 when the word was borrowed from German.

It refers exclusively to hatred of Jewry not because Zionists, but because the term was was popularized in Germany in the 19th century by people who hated Jews prior to being brought into English.

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