The Stereotypes Of Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism, according to britannica encyclopedia, is hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by German Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency,. Arabs and other peoples are also Semites, and yet they are not the targets of anti-Semitism as it is usually understood. The term is especially inappropriate as a label for the anti-Jewish prejudices, statements, or actions of Arabs or other Semites.
In ancient times, the Jewish people established themselves as a distinct and separate people by their belief in one God, also known as monotheism, and by their refusal to accept

the dominant religion. Jews often became the scapegoat, a people to blame for the hardships of mankind, real and imagined.
Nazi anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Holocaust, had a racist dimension in that it targeted Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics—even those who had themselves converted to other religions or whose parents were converts. This variety of anti-Jewish racism dates only to the emergence of so-called “scientific racism” in the 19th century and is different in nature from earlier anti-Jewish prejudices.